Topband: Low Dipoles

[Wes]

I don't know what you used on 75 meters but I worked you on SSB with an 
inverted-vee up only 45 feet at the apex and just a few feet at the ends.  I 
worked my first 80 countries on 160 using the same antenna with some extensions 
on the ends.

Wes  N7WS


On 12/14/2020 3:24 PM, m.r.c. wrote:
> At XZ0A we would not have made about 50% of our NA contacts if we had not 
> installed a low receiving dipole.  It was the ONLY antenna that could hear NA 
> stations for the hours at sunset and just after. These were clearly skew paths 
> as the NA stations all had to use antennas aimed to the SW in order to hear 
> us.  This during the solar maxima.  We did not transmit on the low dipole 
> because it was too low, several hundred feet away, not fed with transmit grade 
> cable, and portions were supported by the all encompassing wet brush.  It 
> would have been a nice experiment if we had been able to transmit on that 
> antenna.
>
> Robin
> WA6CDR
> XZ0A-XZ1N-VP6DX