Hello:



First, thanks everyone for answering my previous posts on antennas, and
providing all those great links. Have been reading on, but it certainly is
a confusing subject, at least to me, with apparently lots of contradictory
opinions.

So again, thanks very much for help; really appreciate it.



Have finally convinced the wife to go along with an outside antenna as
everyone has been suggesting to me, rather than living with the wire strung
around the 4 corners of my attic which I now have. Took some doing.



Do listening only, most anywhere from 30 on down to 0.5 MHz.



Have pretty much decided on purchasing the PAR EF-SWL (45 feet overall L,
end fed), and

configuring it close to the house as an Inverted L.



a. Is there an "optimum" ratio between the lengths of the horiz and vert.
legs ?

What does it depend on ?



b. I saw some radiation plots for the antenna, and although I don't
understand these plots fully, they don't seem to be perfectly omni. When I
string it up, I might as well try to optimize it for my preferred listening
directions.



Would this be perpendicular to the horizontal axis (e.g., if I want E-W
optimized, should the horiz wire be strung N-S, or,... ?



Or, it is so close to omni, that it really doesn't matter ? Would the
answer be (very) freq. dependent ?



c. Think there would be any meaningful losses is I run the vertical length
fastened to the house ?



d. I guess that "the higher, the better" applies here also. True ?

If so, any problem with end of the vertical also being raised from
close to ground level as a result of trying to bring everything up ?



Thanks,

Bob