[TowerTalk] Takeoff angle

[Chuck Dietz]

Assuming you have picked the proper geographic area, the height of the bars
at the bottom under the curves represent the percentage of the time signals
from wherever you picked to your QTH come in at the angle listed under the
bar.  This can lead to some surprising results and is fun to play with.
Much of what I thought was validated for my station, however, I moved my
fixed SE and SW antennas to cover angles that the higher antennas missed.

Chuck W5PR

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:41 AM Jeff Draughn <n0ost99 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I've been playing around with HFTA trying to figure out the best height/
> configuration for my antennas and it dawned on me I wasn't sure what the
> best take off angles are.  I know low is better than high for DX, I'm
> assuming it's a range that I'm looking for.
>  When looking at the plots what would be considered good take off angles
> for DX contests from the  midwest.
> What is considered too high of an angle for DX?
>
> Thanks
> Jeff, N0OST
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