Michael wrote:
Hiya...

I'm assembling all the fixings I need for a new antenna. Now that I'm
committed to an inverted L with my balun ONLY one foot away from the earthen
ground spike...

Given that the horizontal section of an inverted L antenna could work
directionally, would it be good to use two wires at the top of the vertical
section ??? This way you would have one horizontal wire running say north
to south and the second horizontal wire angled at 45 deg to run east and
west ???

Michael


The proper way to use two horizontal wires would be in a dipole or 'V'
configuration but that's a completely different antenna design from an
inverted-L. Otherwise there isn't any real benefit of using two
horizontal wire sections 90-deg apart. It might be worse than one wire
under certain conditions. If you keep the horizontal wire relatively
short (30-50/ft) it won't be that directional, except for perhaps the
highest shortwave frequencies.