Sounds like he created an inverted Vee to me. Chris AC5CM
Typos brought to you by iPhone On Apr 9, 2023, at 14:39, Christopher Boone via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: Took a 40m dipole and put the ends together with a zip tie (so not connected) then hung it as a triangle?? You STILL have a dipole...now in the shape of a triangle..... no big whoop here.... Chris WB5ITT On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 10:11 AM M Reiter via BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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