I don't know what you used on 75 meters but I worked you on SSB with an
inverted-vee up only 45 feet at the apex and just a few feet at the ends. I
worked my first 80 countries on 160 using the same antenna with some extensions
on the ends.
Wes N7WS
On 12/14/2020 3:24 PM, m.r.c. wrote:
At XZ0A we would not have made about 50% of our NA contacts if we had not
installed a low receiving dipole. It was the ONLY antenna that could hear NA
stations for the hours at sunset and just after. These were clearly skew paths
as the NA stations all had to use antennas aimed to the SW in order to hear
us. This during the solar maxima. We did not transmit on the low dipole
because it was too low, several hundred feet away, not fed with transmit grade
cable, and portions were supported by the all encompassing wet brush. It
would have been a nice experiment if we had been able to transmit on that
antenna.
Robin
WA6CDR
XZ0A-XZ1N-VP6DX
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