Which would be best either inverted V or Horizintal for a dipole, as well as does it have to be perfectly straight line or can it be L shape in yard to gather more space for longer run? And to be more ok I directional.
Ok, but how about what it is omni directional or directional if done Horizintally flat topped in an L shape as well as inverted V done like an L but at a corner and it is going in two different direction as in one side goes north and the other side east or south and other side west ect ect what effect does that have on it as far as direction for both a flat top like that and an inverted V?
Inverted V is fairly omnidirectional but it will have a slight directivity.
If you're building a normal dipole with one leg going north-south with the feedpoint at the north and the other going right angles away from the feedpoint east west with the feedpoint being the eastern end of that leg, the lobes with maximum gain will be at an intersect angle north east/south west.
You get a similar but more muted effect doing the same with an inverted V.
Depending on where you are, the orientation of your yard/garden and where you want to contact you can use that to your advantage as I did with a friend whose garden was at right angles to where he wanted to talk to. If you wanted to talk to Europe from most of the east side of the USA you need to point a beam north east. If you built the dipole the way I described above it would work great for getting into Europe but be abysmal for NW USA, South Asia/Australia and the bottom half of Africa.
My yard now is smaller so I'm trying to figure out the max to put and doing two, one on each side , another words two horizontals and a horizontal one leg and other inverted and vice versa other side of back yard, plus 55 or 65 feet of pole for imax 2000 to go on top of.
Kinda, going to use some 10ga I have laying around think I can manage 88' each side max. but cannot be in a straight line has to do have to do 90 degree L shape for both horizontal and inverted V. Just was wondering if anyone ever did this and how it was and what effect it had on direction of it.
That's both legs horizontally or inverted V? And also am talking inverted one leg aka sloping and the other horizontal too. Anyhow from seen their, then is make it almost a little
diagonally than straight side to side.
And one leg west and other north and one west and other south. I cannot make 160' or so but by inverted on 1 side and horizontal on other I can get 88' or so both sides.