Lacking the real estate and high trees to put up a good longwire ( 100
ft), I plan to erect an L shaped wire along neighbors fence line. The base
of the L is about 50 feet long; the 'upright' is about 60 feet. The base
runs perpendicular to an in-roof dipole (33 feet) which is my main antenna,
which seems to work well over most of the HF band.

My question is whether or not the L shape vs. a straight run will affect
(positively or negatively) my ability in terms of directivity, as compared
to the dipole.

I'm hoping that the longwire will offer me more opportunities for DX and
improve received signal strength on many stations. I also like to listen to
MW (local and DX) as well as LF.

Suggestions, comments, criticisms please.

HankG

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"HankG" wrote:

Lacking the real estate and high trees to put up a good longwire (
100 ft), I plan to erect an L shaped wire along neighbors fence line.
The base of the L is about 50 feet long; the 'upright' is about 60
feet. The base runs perpendicular to an in-roof dipole (33 feet)
which is my main antenna, which seems to work well over most of the
HF band.

My question is whether or not the L shape vs. a straight run will
affect (positively or negatively) my ability in terms of directivity,
as compared to the dipole.

I'm hoping that the longwire will offer me more opportunities for DX
and improve received signal strength on many stations. I also like
to listen to MW (local and DX) as well as LF.

Suggestions, comments, criticisms please.

I suggest that you build a passive loop I posted about in the thread
" Looking for a real DX setup."

Build the balanced shield type. They don't take up a lot of room. A 40
foot loop is only 10 foot a side in square shape. The trade off in loop
size is how much signal it picks up verses common mode noise rejection.
Bigger loops need to be farther away from a local noise source but they
pick up more signal. Smaller loops pick up less signal but reject local
noise better.

A Marconi type antenna is nearly useless in my neck of the woods.

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Telamon
Ventura, California