On Aug 31, 7:11*am, dave wrote:
RHF wrote:
What is the Best Direction to 'Point' a Sloper Antenna for DX ?

Given an area where you could locate a Sloper Antenna
with a Tall Mounting Pole "Top-End-Feed-Point' and the
ability to move the Bottom-Far-End around the full circle
of 360 Degrees.

- - Where would you place 'Point' the
- - Bottom-Far-End for the best DXing ?
- - [ N ? E ? W ? S ? ] & WHY ?

- Top-fed slopers in an open space are essentially
- omnidirectional. Most of the radiation happens at
- the feed point. The slantwire and the support
- structure form a low Q mass that also radiates,
- equally well in all directions.

Dave - Tha is All very True for Transmitting Antennas
that are 'Radiating' Power from them; be it 1W, 10W,
100W, 1KW . . .

But a Receiving Antenna collecting 'free' Radiated
Power from the Either in the order of mW ~ nW :
The Direction {lay of the wire}; Ssize {length of the
wire}; and Position {angle of the wire} can each and
all contribute to the 'general direction' that the Wire
will gather 'more' RF Signals from : Given that some
RF Signals will be Radiating from a Point-Source
and mostly Traveling a specific Path between the
originating Point-Source and the specific Location
of the Receiving Antenna.

in search of the one-best answer . . . ~ RHF
[ N ? E ? W ? S ? ] & WHY ?