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1. Topband: Re: short dipoles (score: 1): Author: "Roy Koeppe" <royanjoy@ncn.net>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:27:45 -0500; 'Reality check' concerning: "It's inverted V configuration, center at 38 feet and...(etc.)." This is comparable to erecting a 10M horizontal antenna at 2.5 feet? Would anybody really do that? 73, Roy; /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00078.html (6,336 bytes)
2. Re: Topband: Re: short dipoles (score: 1): Author: "Mike Brown" <k9mi@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:23:56 -0000; Yes, when it's all you can do, you do it. On my 50x130 city lot, it zigs and zags, but still has an swr of 1.3:1 around 1850. It's no rockcrusher, but sometimes you do what you can do. I use mine to; /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00079.html (8,294 bytes)
3. Re: Topband: Re: short dipoles (score: 1): Author: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:59:59 -0400; Around 1963 or 64 I worked W6, G, DL, VK and several South American's with a Globe Scout 65 and a dipole at 30ft. Very few people even thought of Inverted L's, or even of using an amp. W2EQS was one; /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00081.html (7,721 bytes)
4. Re: Topband: Re: short dipoles (score: 1): Author: Herb Schoenbohm <herbs@vitelcom.net>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:52:09 -0400; Roy, Yes indeed they would! A low dipole to the ground can be a superb antenna at Sunrise and Sunset for certain long haul DX on topband. It is a valuable and simple antenna to have available during; /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00083.html (7,830 bytes)
5. RE: Topband: Re: short dipoles (score: 1): Author: "W7TMT" <w7tmt@dayshaw.net>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:41:08 -0700; Roy, Of course no one would "do that" on 10 meters! However many of us live on small city lots and we would still like to get on the lower bands. All the guy is looking for is what his best options m; /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00085.html (8,035 bytes)
6. Re: Topband: Re: short dipoles (score: 1): Author: W2pm@aol.com; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:57:51 EDT; I dont think he was discouraging it - just pointing out the realities. Any antenna IS better than no antenna but it's important not to let anecdote pass without at least presenting the facts besides; /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00087.html (8,140 bytes)
7. Re: Topband: Re: short dipoles (score: 1): Author: "Larry Higgins" <n9dx@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:04:30 -0500; That's true, Tom. As a footnote, of interest to the many who knew Charlie: after he moved to Indiana and became a W9 he continued with a dipole at 35 feet for the first couple of years here. When he; /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00090.html (8,004 bytes)

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