Topband: Low Dipoles
Jim Brown
jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Thu Dec 17 15:35:31 EST 2020
On 12/17/2020 12:28 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> I've had low (30-40' up) 160m dipoles in essentially 3 QTH's.and always had
> inverted L's to do A/B realtime comparisons.
I'd define a dipole as "low" if it were less than 1/4 wavelength; I had
one at 120 ft, less than a quarter wave. The virtue of having it lower
than that, of course, is that it further suppresses low angle,
potentially reducing local noise.
73, Jim K9YC
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