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Old February 4th 06, 02:57 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Owen Duffy
 
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Default Verticals versus Horizontal Dipoles

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:57:47 -0500, Mike Coslo
wrote:


But here is the interesting thing. On the horizontal antenna, the
listening is a whole heckava lot more pleasant. Another item of interest


Mike, you will be aware that a lot of commercial HF amateur
transceivers have two HF antenna sockets which can be selected from
the front panel. I have always wondered why they do not support a mode
of tx on Ant-1, rx on Ant-2 to conveniently support the very
configuration you are using.

Owen
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