[TowerTalk] Cutting a dipole

[Jim Lux]

On 9/4/13 3:32 PM, James Setzler wrote:
> Greetings
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> I should know this but I've not made too many dipoles.
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> While it is hanging at 8 feet so I can get to it, I've cut a 40 m dipole to
> the frequency I want.  When I raise the apex to 65 feet as an inverted V,
> how will the resonance frequency change?
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The resonant frequency will go higher, in general.

How much is impossible to say.

The easy way is to put a pulley at the top, haul it up, measure it, then 
bring it back down to shorten it.