[TowerTalk] 160M Wire Antenna

[Tom Rauch]

> Tom:  What you say is true about the inverted vee pattern being 
> omnidirectional in the azimuth plane.  But the inverted vee is mostly
> vertically polarized off the ends and horizontally polarized 
broadside. 

So is a regular dipole. When I want to null my vertical transmitting 
antennas with a dipole, I put my dipole broadside to my vertical! 

On six meters, I can work verticals on groundwave better off the 
side of my yagi.


73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com

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