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Ian Westerland <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 4 May 2013 08:40:22 +1000
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There seem to be many ways to handle the wire.  Running it along 
fences, legs running opposit directions to each other, Z shape, we 
should invent an aerial and call it the Contortion aerial which is 
really a dipole in a bent or twisted configuration.

73


Ian, VK3vin


At 12:24 AM 4/05/2013, you wrote:
>I don't have the space either.  I have found that since most of the signal
>radiates from the center of the antenna, I anchor the antenna and bring the
>remaining wire back toward the house.  Its kind of like an inverted Z rather
>than an inverted V.
>One end actually comes back at a 150 degree angle.  The other end is at
>around a 120 degree angle, but it works.

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