Sunday, December 29, 2024

Difference between Inv-L and Inv-V on DX this morning


 Decided to monitor my own signal on 60m DX via a webSDR in ZL. The inv-L was clearly the winner this time. I've experience it before, especially on DX. This morning the diffence was from totally no signal on the other side of the world with the inv-V to -11dB signal with the inv-L. I could follow my own signal till 08:30 UTC way after sunrise. You can see part of the inv-L on the picture above. The wire goes up from down the right corner and up into the tower. Part of the horizontal wire can bee seen from the tower up. I wonder how much the tower disturbes the radiation pattern since the wire is close to the metal structure. 


Another advantage is that I have less interference from my neighbours solarpanels on the inv-L.

2 comments:

Alexander PE0ALX said...

Wow, I can only dream of such a tower in my garden! ;-)

PE4BAS, Bas said...

I can imagine that. Years ago I was dreaming the same thing. Sometimes dreams come true! 73, Bas