[TowerTalk] 80 meter vertical or

[Jim Brown]

On 8/12/2022 1:41 PM, S57AD wrote:
> How about a sloping dipole, Stephen? Upper half at 30° to the tower and
> bottom half 30° from the ground , in the shape of extended V. I had
> excellent experiences with such a dipole...

If the tower is provided with a lot of on-ground radials, it can act as 
an efficient reflector, providing a few dB of gain in the direction of 
the slope. I've successfully done that with 160M wires sloping in 
opposing directions from the 120 tower that holds Yagis for HF and 6M. 
They are insulated from the tower and fed one at a time at their base 
against four radials about 20 ft. I have six on-ground 100 ft radials on 
the tower.

73, Jim K9YC