[TowerTalk] HFTA & Antenna Direction Question

[Rita Stockton]

I am getting ready to put up another 5L 20M yagi (not rotational at this time) for the purpose of improving the situation to Europe.  I have a big drop off that goes from about West to about 20 degrees going clockwise. At about 45 degrees (toward Europe), I might as well be on flat ground.  At some of the lower angles, according to HFTA,  the stack pointed at about 10 or 20 degrees shows as much as 8-10 dB improvement as compared to the same stack pointed at 45 degrees.  The question is this.  Would it make sense to skew the lower antenna about 20-30 degrees North of Europe to best take advantage of that drop off when these are in phase since according to YO the free space pattern would indicate a drop of about 4 dB if the antenna were turned off by 30 degrees?

Stan, K5GO