this is driving me nuts, so now i cant sleep

[K7SGJ]

I had a Fan Dipole with wires cut for 75M, 40M and 20M. I used plastic coat hangers for seperators. It worked like gangbusters for all 3 bands with-out a tuner and everywhere else with the tuner........ I even made a few contacts on 160M and 6M. I could never get it to work on 60M.... I don't know why.

Another one I built I used PVC Pipe cut to length for my separators....... for some reason, that antenna sucked.....

Did you take out the sprinkler heads?

[KA9MOT]

I left the coats on the hangers too! :rofl:

[KC2UGV]

I left the coats on the hangers too! :rofl:

I'm sure that's the reason it performed so well. Acted as a thermal blanket to keep the SWR's inside the wire.

[N2RJ]

Must have something to do with how it was oriented. My 134 foot long dipole works fantastic into Europe on 20m. It runs almost dead on N/S. I have a deep null into the West Coast, so I use the 40m loop for that.

Yep, that was the problem. But I had no choice since the only supports I could use were in certain directions.

Now it's a moot point since I have a tower, beam and other antenna supports to play with.