It all depends on propagation. Even if your antenna is not efficient on
20 meters as a 40 meter dipole, it might still be able to make the trip.
I tuned my 40 meter inverted V to 80 meters and connected to a Winlink
gateway near Austin with average transfer speed. It probably wasn't all
that great for the antenna but it still worked.
73
John Denison
KD5YOU
On 4/9/2023 10:10 AM, M Reiter via BVARC wrote:
This morning i took a 40m dipole attached the wire ends with a zip
tie. (No metal to metal connection) And hung it up as a triangle with
no measurents the top was at the top of my mast and the bottom was as
high as i could stand on a chair.. I was lazy and just attached it to
my radio checked swr on 40m to 10m and since 20m was less than 2:1 i
hit tune. Made a 59 contact in mississippi. Whats my point??? Well i
have read hundreds of pages about antennas this design is not in any
of them and still have no idea why any of this works.
Marc KI5ZHO
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