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I suggested the OP raise his antenna higher than 20 feet to see if it would improve their 3 mile communication. Waverider says a low antenna better for local communication and that's a bad idea. Waverider then challenged me to tune in to his local frequency so he could show me how well his low antenna works. Im over 900 miles from waverider so I don't see how that test is relevant here. I can understand the confusion.

I'm not telling the guy to buy a 100 ft tower. Why do you even bother having the 40 meter wire on your fanny dipole at 45 feet? Isn't that too high? His fanny dipole is for 20 meters also. Since you say there is little nvis propagation why not raise it up?

Frequencies below 14 mhz leaves a lot of possibilities. 40, 80 and 160 all are very different at different times of the day. Iraq is a small country, so what? The OP is asking about 3 miles. You still don't know what freq they were using, what the band was like at the time of communication or how far they were trying to communicate. It was a bad reference but instead of moving on you would rather insult me.

Experts like yourself are why I prefer AM. You aren't heard there. The coax you swiped from the direct tv guy would turn into a long fuse with enough carrier to get you above the static level this time of year. I build a remote balanced tuner and use the same wire on many bands. You use a fanny dipole fed with tv coax and say it's better than what you've built in the past....yep I'm the idiot that needs to be spoon fed.

<blockquote data-quote="543_Dallas" data-source="post: 589454" data-attributes="member: 21044">CaptainI suggested the OP raise his antenna higher than 20 feet to see if it would improve their 3 mile communication. Waverider says a low antenna better for local communication and that&#039;s a bad idea. Waverider then challenged me to tune in to his local frequency so he could show me how well his low antenna works. Im over 900 miles from waverider so I don&#039;t see how that test is relevant here. I can understand the confusion.I&#039;m not telling the guy to buy a 100 ft tower. Why do you even bother having the 40 meter wire on your fanny dipole at 45 feet? Isn&#039;t that too high? His fanny dipole is for 20 meters also. Since you say there is little nvis propagation why not raise it up?Frequencies below 14 mhz leaves a lot of possibilities. 40, 80 and 160 all are very different at different times of the day. Iraq is a small country, so what? The OP is asking about 3 miles. You still don&#039;t know what freq they were using, what the band was like at the time of communication or how far they were trying to communicate. It was a bad reference but instead of moving on you would rather insult me.Experts like yourself are why I prefer AM. You aren&#039;t heard there. The coax you swiped from the direct tv guy would turn into a long fuse with enough carrier to get you above the static level this time of year. I build a remote balanced tuner and use the same wire on many bands. You use a fanny dipole fed with tv coax and say it&#039;s better than what you&#039;ve built in the past....yep I&#039;m the idiot that needs to be spoon fed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="543_Dallas, post: 589454, member: 21044"] Captain I suggested the OP raise his antenna higher than 20 feet to see if it would improve their 3 mile communication. Waverider says a low antenna better for local communication and that's a bad idea. Waverider then challenged me to tune in to his local frequency so he could show me how well his low antenna works. Im over 900 miles from waverider so I don't see how that test is relevant here. I can understand the confusion. I'm not telling the guy to buy a 100 ft tower. Why do you even bother having the 40 meter wire on your fanny dipole at 45 feet? Isn't that too high? His fanny dipole is for 20 meters also. Since you say there is little nvis propagation why not raise it up? Frequencies below 14 mhz leaves a lot of possibilities. 40, 80 and 160 all are very different at different times of the day. Iraq is a small country, so what? The OP is asking about 3 miles. You still don't know what freq they were using, what the band was like at the time of communication or how far they were trying to communicate. It was a bad reference but instead of moving on you would rather insult me. Experts like yourself are why I prefer AM. You aren't heard there. The coax you swiped from the direct tv guy would turn into a long fuse with enough carrier to get you above the static level this time of year. I build a remote balanced tuner and use the same wire on many bands. You use a fanny dipole fed with tv coax and say it's better than what you've built in the past....yep I'm the idiot that needs to be spoon fed. [/QUOTE]

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