My Homebrew Antenna Works........
I am desperate for info, I also posted this question somewhere else.
....But I'm wondering why and, how to make it better.
I've got what could be considered a Horizontal OCF Dipole in a "V" configuration between 35 and 40 feet high. It is being fed with a short piece of 300 ohm flat line. In between the radio and the Dentron Super Tuner is an accurate directional Watt / SWR meter (Yaesu YS-60).
Coming out of the tuner, one end of the antenna is horizontal running East and west and is about 40 foot long while, the other end come away from the tuner vertically, goes up 5 feet, then travels another 20 feet or so South forming a 90 degree angle.
The Dentron tuner is able to 'make' the SWR meter in the radio (IC-706MKIIG) happy as well as simultaneously making the YS-60 read a minimum of reflected power and low SWR. I have not had a problem making contacts.
The only problems is when it rains, 40 Meters gets "Hinky" to tune, I can tune any other band 10-80 all the time but, 40 will not tune until the weather has dried up the roof. When 40 Meters is screwing up, it seems to be being affected by the inter-station coax wiring; when the "Match" is bad outside, the "Match" (how the YS-60 reads) is different.
So, the question: "Horizontal V" 40 foot up with random length legs forming a 90 degree angle is going to perform how and in what best direction?
BTW: WARC Bands and 11 Meters cannot be bought closer than 2.0 to 1 by the dentron.
