Do you have your radios (or antenna mast) grounded?

-Donald

Yes the mast is grounded... I guess I thought with a dipole it would be
worthless without it's bottom half, or at least seriously compromised.

Fred wrote:

Do you have your radios (or antenna mast) grounded?

-Donald

Yes the mast is grounded... I guess I thought with a dipole it would
be worthless without it's bottom half, or at least seriously
compromised.

Nope, you just re-invented the quarter wave whip antenna, with your mast
providing the counterpoise... ;-)

Can't tell from the provided picture, but if the elements on the top and
bottom were different sizes, you may have lost more than 3dB at the
frequency ranges the bottom half was tuned for...

Might be interesting to know how well just your mast does... :-)

-D
--
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

Nope, you just re-invented the quarter wave whip antenna, with your mast
providing the counterpoise... ;-)

Can't tell from the provided picture, but if the elements on the top and
bottom were different sizes, you may have lost more than 3dB at the
frequency ranges the bottom half was tuned for...

Might be interesting to know how well just your mast does... :-)

-D

The elements are the same top and bottom.. actually the very top 7
feet or so of my mast is a wooden rod with the other 20 or so feet
being a standard metal mast.. interesting..

I could use the broken half as a second antenna!!

Fred

Fred wrote:

I could use the broken half as a second antenna!!


Depending on how you connected it, you might even get your 3 dB back...
:-)

-D
--
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright