starman wrote in message ...
TailGator wrote:

Agree wholeheartedly with the dipole comments - I live on the Gulf coast of
Florida, right on the water, and have an 80-ft longwire, end-fed, about 35
feet up and sloping down to a fence post. Coax to a Grove TUN-4 and an Icom
R75 and a Drake. Reception is fantastic! Can't go wrong with a long...wire,
that is

What you have is a sloping inverted-L antenna. A real longwire is much
longer than 80-ft for most of the HF spectrum.


TailGator & StarMan,

FWIW: More 'properly' called a "Random" Wire Antenna
- - - Vice a [Longwire] Antenna


IIRC: A 80 Foot single wire would be 'about' . . .
* Half Wave Length at 6 MHz
* * One Wave Length at 12.5 MHz
* * * Two Wave Lengths at 25 MHz


NOTE: Not enough information to determine if this would be a:
[ ] Simple Top End Feed Slopper
(Vice the Bottom End Feed Slopper)
- - -or- - -
[ ] Inverted "L" Sloper
(The so called "Lazy L" or "Tilted L" Antenna.)


iane ~ RHF
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