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Equipment / Inverted sloper?
« on: September 04, 2019, 2112 UTC »
Hi all, just joined, hope won't hold that against me... 
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Anyway... bought off ebay a 40 meter wide dipole 1/2 wave, so over 66 ft long antenna..
Great I thought, arrived and then I thought, hang on, which end do I hang it...
contacted the seller, who offered couple weird like suggestions, nothing easy, well one wasn't weird, was using a meter, which not have that sort to try and figure it out, not keen to break it apart either, as well made, not like ones I have often done, lol.
My question is this:
Does it matter, if as connects Via the pl259 plug, if main element that comes from inner core coax cable ends up, upside down..
Sorry not good with words..
Pretend I'm putting it up as a vertical, inner core cable goes to upper half and outer braiding goes to lower, often refered to as ground plane, not sure on half wave dipole if called a ground plane.. Anyway what if it's upside down...
I could do inverted V but be like 65 ft up and given only have 100 feet cable and distance likely from that height end up more... I know, tricky situation and google searches suggest sloper often better picking up weaker further away stations than inverted V anyway... taking say hundreds miles to 1000, not up to few hundred miles away say...
I could, but a pain, hang it and try it, listening to voice clock thing on 5,000 mhz and 10,000 mhz, then turn around, just time consuming and a pain, lowering back down and changing over and hanging the other end...
Sorry so long, always was a long talker, lol... appreciated, if read this far.....
..Anyway... bought off ebay a 40 meter wide dipole 1/2 wave, so over 66 ft long antenna..
Great I thought, arrived and then I thought, hang on, which end do I hang it...
contacted the seller, who offered couple weird like suggestions, nothing easy, well one wasn't weird, was using a meter, which not have that sort to try and figure it out, not keen to break it apart either, as well made, not like ones I have often done, lol.
My question is this:
Does it matter, if as connects Via the pl259 plug, if main element that comes from inner core coax cable ends up, upside down..
Sorry not good with words..
Pretend I'm putting it up as a vertical, inner core cable goes to upper half and outer braiding goes to lower, often refered to as ground plane, not sure on half wave dipole if called a ground plane.. Anyway what if it's upside down...
I could do inverted V but be like 65 ft up and given only have 100 feet cable and distance likely from that height end up more... I know, tricky situation and google searches suggest sloper often better picking up weaker further away stations than inverted V anyway... taking say hundreds miles to 1000, not up to few hundred miles away say...
I could, but a pain, hang it and try it, listening to voice clock thing on 5,000 mhz and 10,000 mhz, then turn around, just time consuming and a pain, lowering back down and changing over and hanging the other end...
Sorry so long, always was a long talker, lol... appreciated, if read this far...
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