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

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.

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" wrote in message
m...
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.

Burr's Radio Shack - http://tinyurl.com/3wuscn

Red Mountain, California / Bulacan, Philippines

Burr wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
m...
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.

Burr's Radio Shack - http://tinyurl.com/3wuscn

Red Mountain, California / Bulacan, Philippines


Of course. I have a J shaped 150' wire on a 70' X 100' rectangular lot.
I can hear airplanes from 4,000 miles away.