[Lowfer] vertical-ness

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:39:51 -0500

So did that make any sense??? If you had a beam on HF and you slightly
elevated it then you would be able to work stations in closer to you on
skywave as the first hop would be closer to you.

Mike>WE0H

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of WE0H
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Lowfer] vertical-ness

Your southern hops will be out at longer distances and the northern hops
will be closer together. Your east and west hops will be the same normal
distances.

Mike>WE0H

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Eric Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Lowfer] vertical-ness

Is that a word?  :)

The vertical element of my new HiFER antenna is NOT very vertical.  It
leans to the South perhaps 5 degrees ... maybe more.  It's easy to see.

I know what to do to fix it, but it is going to take a little doing.

My question is ... what effect, if any, does this have on my signal?

I'm going to fix it regardless of the answer, but I'd like to know.

73
Eric, KD5UWL

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