Colleagues,
The determination has been made: I will be forced to run a form of an
inverted L for 160. I will be using my neigbhors 45 foot pine tree to be the
main support. My pine tree that is located in the front yard will be the far
end support. There is (very) roughly 90 to 110 feet in between.
My question: is a 1/4 wave the optimum length for an L? Some folks have
suggested going with 3/8 wavelength instead.
It will not be a symmetrical L. The vertical part will not be 90 degrees
perpendicular to earth. It will be more like 50 to 70 degrees approximately.
So the L will look like this:
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Vertical angle will be slightly less than this
Approx. 45 to 60 feet vertical and I can run around 100 feet horiz.
So is it better to run it longer than a 1/4 wave?
Also I would like to use this as an all band antenna. For those of you who
do have L antennas have you tried them on 80, 40, etc??
Comments encouraged.
Lane
KM3G
San Diego
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