My group usually puts up a V antenna for 80 and 40 on field day and
makes quite a few contacts on it each time.
It works and is fairly directional. We feed it with ladder line as I
recall and use a balun.
The angle between the legs was around 60 degrees, I'm not sure what a 97
degree antenna
Fellow Elecrafters,
There's lots of stuff in the antenna literature about inverted V antennas,
i.e., where the feedpoint is higher than the ends. But I can't find anything on
dipoles and such in which the ends are not in the same vertical plane as the
center.
I'm thinking of putting up a
Real world implementations of antennas are constrained by
the type and location of support structures that are on site.
That said, put it up and see how it works.
Any antenna is better than none.
Bob K3YT
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Albers wrote:
Anyone see any major pitfalls with this approach??
Tom, N6BT (founder of Force 12) has been known to say, Everything will
radiate. He often shows pictures of his Illuminator antennas to
prove it. One is a light bulb on a post fed with coax and a current
balun at the socket.
If I recall correctly, John Heys' (G3BDR) Practical Wire Antennas published
by RSGB has a discussion on the Vee Beam (horizontal Vee, twin fed vertical
element) antenna. As I recall it was a practical wire antenna with
directivity in some bands. ;) I think if you find Jimmy Hoffa, you will
I've used a center fed antenna like that with good results. The same rule
apples as applies to an Inverted V: keep the angle 90 degrees to avoid
excessive signal cancellation.
Feeding it off center means your feed line is not just a transmission
line: it's another radiating element in the
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