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Long inverted V not working well, why?
I just put up an inverted V that is up about 70 feet in the center and about 15 feet at the ends. Each leg is about 130 feet long, or about 260 feet overall, which is right around a half wave for 160 meters. It is fed with ladder line and an LDG auto-tuner. I also have a dipole antenna that's up about 17 feet and is a half wave for certain MARS / CAP frequencies above the 75 meter band, hence it's a bit short for 75 meters. That antenna is coax fed and goes through a different LDG auto-tuner which allows me to use it on 75/80 meters with a good match. The long and high inverted V doesn't work any better than the short and low dipole, and in some cases doesn't work as well. I have checked all the connections on the inverted V and even did a continuity check from each side of the ladder line, up through the feed point, out each leg to the end of each leg, and all seems OK. I have tried switching auto-tuners (taking the one that's on the coax-fed dipole and putting it on the inverted V) with no discernible difference. Seems very strange. Any ideas that might account for why the V doesn't work better? |
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