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This past weekend I mounted my 11m 5/8 wavelength vertical wire dipole antenna
1 wavelength above the ground give or take a few feet and had very good skywave propagation conditions. Was able to qso with operator's in
Washington State, Oregon, Northern California, New Mexico, Florida. Operator's were telling me they copied me better when they switched over to their horizontal antenna's instead of their vertical ones. Being that I use a vertical wire dipole the radiation is higher up then a typical groundplane antenna which helps gives better overall performance. Due to the height being
1 wavelength I wasn't able to qso locally as usual with operator's 20+ miles away due being down in a hole surrounded by mountains but was able to get some knives edge conditions with operator 150miles south of me. Will be doing more experiments for see if I can get better locally.

<blockquote data-quote="Boat Anchor 63" data-source="post: 761923" data-attributes="member: 56743">This past weekend I mounted my 11m 5/8 wavelength vertical wire dipole antenna1 wavelength above the ground give or take a few feet and had very good skywave propagation conditions. Was able to qso with operator&#039;s inWashington State, Oregon, Northern California, New Mexico, Florida. Operator&#039;s were telling me they copied me better when they switched over to their horizontal antenna&#039;s instead of their vertical ones. Being that I use a vertical wire dipole the radiation is higher up then a typical groundplane antenna which helps gives better overall performance. Due to the height being&nbsp;1 wavelength I wasn&#039;t able to qso locally as usual with operator&#039;s 20+ miles away due being down in a hole surrounded by mountains but was able to get some knives edge conditions with operator 150miles south of me. Will be doing more experiments for see if I can get better locally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Boat Anchor 63, post: 761923, member: 56743"] This past weekend I mounted my 11m 5/8 wavelength vertical wire dipole antenna 1 wavelength above the ground give or take a few feet and had very good skywave propagation conditions. Was able to qso with operator's in Washington State, Oregon, Northern California, New Mexico, Florida. Operator's were telling me they copied me better when they switched over to their horizontal antenna's instead of their vertical ones. Being that I use a vertical wire dipole the radiation is higher up then a typical groundplane antenna which helps gives better overall performance. Due to the height being 1 wavelength I wasn't able to qso locally as usual with operator's 20+ miles away due being down in a hole surrounded by mountains but was able to get some knives edge conditions with operator 150miles south of me. Will be doing more experiments for see if I can get better locally. [/QUOTE]

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