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My Balun on the dipole makes a flat SWR with no amp powering it. I mean 1.00:1. It has to be horizontal, both legs out to the sides "opposite" each other. If I do an Inverted V, with the legs "Opposite" each other, still good. But, If I have the legs at a 45 angle down, but both forward of an imaginary center line, then my SWR zooms up to over 3. Dangerous ground with an amp. All I can figure out is the two legs are reflecting off each other and sending it back down the coax. I don't really know, but it's not good. Move the legs back so they are opposed to each other with the balun in the middle, high or low, flat or very low SWR again, with the amp on or off.

And of course, the sky is clear, the sun is out, it's a perfect day, and the skip has died like a fish out of water. It seems skip only runs around here when it rains and storms. LOL

The fact that my radiation pattern has gone more circular with the inverted V is a great sign though.

<blockquote data-quote="Yankee" data-source="post: 430550" data-attributes="member: 31726">My Balun&nbsp; on the dipole makes a flat SWR with no amp powering it. I mean 1.00:1. It has to be horizontal, both legs out to the sides &quot;opposite&quot; each other. If I do an Inverted V, with the legs &quot;Opposite&quot; each other, still good. But, If I have the legs at a 45 angle down, but both forward of an imaginary center line, then my SWR zooms up to over 3. Dangerous ground with an amp. All I can figure out is the two legs are reflecting off each other and sending it back down the coax. I don&#039;t really know, but it&#039;s not good. Move the legs back so they are opposed to each other with the balun in the middle, high or low, flat or very low SWR again, with the amp on or off.And of course, the sky is clear, the sun is out, it&#039;s a perfect day, and the skip has died like a fish out of water. It seems skip only runs around here when it rains and storms. LOLThe fact that my radiation pattern has gone more circular with the inverted V is a great sign though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yankee, post: 430550, member: 31726"] My Balun on the dipole makes a flat SWR with no amp powering it. I mean 1.00:1. It has to be horizontal, both legs out to the sides "opposite" each other. If I do an Inverted V, with the legs "Opposite" each other, still good. But, If I have the legs at a 45 angle down, but both forward of an imaginary center line, then my SWR zooms up to over 3. Dangerous ground with an amp. All I can figure out is the two legs are reflecting off each other and sending it back down the coax. I don't really know, but it's not good. Move the legs back so they are opposed to each other with the balun in the middle, high or low, flat or very low SWR again, with the amp on or off. And of course, the sky is clear, the sun is out, it's a perfect day, and the skip has died like a fish out of water. It seems skip only runs around here when it rains and storms. LOL The fact that my radiation pattern has gone more circular with the inverted V is a great sign though. [/QUOTE]

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