James Barrett wrote:
What would you consider the best direction to hang a long dipole? I will
be hanging about 135 feet with the ends at east and west. It's the only
direction I have enough room to hang a wire antenna that long.

It depends upon what you want your radiation pattern
coverage to be from your particular QTH. I orient my
130 foot dipole so that my radiation lobes point toward
the world's large land masses on 20m. The free demo
version of EZNEC available from eznec.com will tell you
what direction your lobes are pointing.

The radiation patterns for an east-west 130 foot dipole
can be found on my web page under my notuner all-HF-band
antenna design. The 20m radiation pattern is at
http://www.w5dxp.com/20m.htm
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com