Great advice, Jeff! Among many things Stan observes, loss in decent
feedlines is quite low at 1.8 MHz, and the advantage of location with
respect to terrain, especially elevation and/or sea water can be
significant. Also, N6BT, a fine engineer, has published experimental
work to show that verticals very close to a drop-off perform well in the
direction of the dropoff. ON4UN observed this decades ago in "Low Band
DXing," published in several editions by ARRL. A great reference about
antennas and propagation for Topband and the lower HF bands.
73, Jim K9YC
On 12/19/2025 12:41 AM, Stan Stockton wrote:
There are a lot of things to know in order to have even a guess as to whether
your antenna will be good or not
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