I have a few with all the dipoles pointed into the tower
and one wavelength off the tower at the transmit frequency
and it works just fine and is fairly omni.
some DB-224's on 220 and some on two meters.
73 Russ, W3CH
> There will ALWAYS be some null in the direction of the tower at any
> practical distance away from it at 2M. I think the idea of facing the
> dipoles toward the tower is a way of putting maximum signal toward a
> known weaker area. The pattern will never be omni with a side mount,
> but we can try.......
>
> Someone on the list had their 224 configured that way....can't
> remember who.
>
> Laryn K8TVZ
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