[TowerTalk] Fan Dipole

[Jim Brown]

On 9/30/2017 5:31 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> It may be terrible, but it's better than no antenna at all.

Exactly right! But most serious operators have had the experience of a 
few dB making the difference between making a QSO or not.

> I have 72 DXCC entities worked using an inverted-V, 45' high at the 
> center with ends barely off the ground. 

And I have 147 worked on 160 in 11 years from Norcal with good antennas. 
As N6BT has famously said, "Everything works," which he demonstrated by 
working all continents driving a light bulb with all wiring to the light 
bulb suppressed. :)

73, Jim K9YC