On 1/14/2020 2:53 PM, donov...@starpower.net wrote:
I've had 160 horizontal dipoles at 100 feet and 200 feet high and I've never experienced a situation where their performance approached the consistent excellent performance of my verticals.
Same experience here. When I first moved to W6 in 2006, I rigged both a horizontal dipole at about 120 ft and a 75 ft Tee vertical with a lot on-ground radials, and for a year or two, switched between them on most stations. That horizontal dipole rarely outperformed the Tee vertical, and the vertical was often a LOT better. Most striking difference was in the 2-3 hours of daylight between 2 pm and 5 pm local, which is when 160 contests start on the west coast. Running legal limit with the vertical, I could regularly work 800 miles or so, usually one call. With the dipole, never even a QRZ?
73, Jim K9YC _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
