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There's nothing but static on 3865, I'm late to the party as usual. You and I are at about the same height, you're actually higher. They are low antennas for 75 and 40 meters but they work. If you were having performance issues on 40 (I'll bet you don't) I wouldn't suggest that you lower the antenna.

No argument that height effects the pattern but there has to be some common sense used and you have to keep ground loss in mind. The OP is at 20 feet now trying to work someone across town on 20 or 40 meters. He already has a low dipole and you say no to a vertical because that's for dx. The only options you leave him is a big amplifier or settle for what he has and tell everyone it isn't possible to do better.

[QUOTE="543_Dallas, post: 589349, member: 21044"] There's nothing but static on 3865, I'm late to the party as usual. You and I are at about the same height, you're actually higher. They are low antennas for 75 and 40 meters but they work. If you were having performance issues on 40 (I'll bet you don't) I wouldn't suggest that you lower the antenna. No argument that height effects the pattern but there has to be some common sense used and you have to keep ground loss in mind. The OP is at 20 feet now trying to work someone across town on 20 or 40 meters. He already has a low dipole and you say no to a vertical because that's for dx. The only options you leave him is a big amplifier or settle for what he has and tell everyone it isn't possible to do better. [/QUOTE]

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