Web Williams wrote:
> Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>
>> May not get "the most". Just have a vertical at about 70 feet.
>>
>>
> Far from "not getting the most", you're slitting your own throat
> trying to work 6M SSB DX with a vertical. Polarization is
> much more critical on the higher bands (like 6M and up). You
> sound fairly knowledgeable, so I'm sure you know that the
> polarization losses between opposite (horizontal vs. vertical)
> are 20dB? You won't notice much difference with nearby repeaters,
> but for DX, you may as well holler out the window, they'll hear
> you just as well. If you can't put up a Yagi, consider a squalo
> or squloop. You won't have any gain, but at least that will get
> rid of your 20dB loss between you and the stations you're
> trying to work. Even a quad loop is better than a vertical, and
> not much harder to make out of wire and put up.
>
> It's been said that nobody knows what polarization a signal has
> when it comes back down to earth after a hop or two, but trust
> me, on VHF this truism is multitudes of degrees less true.
>
> 73, -Web (KR4WM)
>

I have a 10 meter wire and some extra wire. I thought about cutting the
extra wire into a 6 meter and suspending it below the 10 on spacers.
Then string the whole mess flat top between my two towers at about50 +/-
feet. That arrangement should give some pretty fair radiation East/West
but not much North/South. [ Towers are on the North and South ends of
the house ] From what a friend of mine that is an antenna guru says it
should work. A six meter signal will see resonance on the six meter wire
and radiate from there and a ten meter signal will see the ten meter
wire as resonant and radiate from there.

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