> I think you are absolutely right. However, sloping the wire saves
> having to put up an additional support pole at the end of the antenna
> plus guy wire. The antenna itself serves as the guy wire for the next
> adjacent pole. (No baby people or animals run in that field).
Sloping the end for a modest distance probably does not hurt
performance, and certainly does not help. It is mostly just a
mechanical issue.
I slope the ends of Beverages a bit because I use 8-foot landscape
timbers as end-posts (bottom end 2-3 feet deep), and some Beverages
must be ten feet tall to fit above tractors or small trucks. Of
course you never want the end of one Beverage to come to the same
point as other Beverages, or to switch the high-impedance side with
regular relays.73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com
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