"Dave" wrote in message
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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 math is staggering. The concept of random wire includes the hard fact
that at some freqs the antenna works broadside, at others it is end
firing. Height above the ground also affects directionality quite a bit.
If you really want something closer to omni, go with a sloper, rather than
an "L".

Dave, I have a sloping "L" is that any good.

It works fine for me.

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