I never had that consideration. I always tried with whatever I had. In one of my first VHF QSO parties I put a 4 element homebrew 144 MHz yagi on a tripod in my second-floor apartment, ran about 5 wa
VHF is not like Not true. When I was in graduate school from 1993 to 1996, I ran an indoor dipole on 6 meters. Hung it up in the bedroom of my apartment on the second floor. Had another similar one i
This is a matter of location, location, location. Yes, a dipole not very high will make QSOs on six meters. I've done it several times in the June contest from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, usi