My Antenna's Radials are tilted up towards the ENE and down towards the WSW. With a more or less perfect ground plane the 1/4 Vertical has about a 30 deg throw. There is no doubt that towards Europe I am somewhat above 30 deg in elevation and towards Australia I am somewhat below 30 deg. I built the 80m Vert at the top of the hill to have a ground plane that went down towards the , E , W and S but is level towards the N. The 80m antenna works really well getting to Europe!
I would put all my antennas up the top of the hill but three is one little problem , its a 500' run on coax! I am currently using LDF4 which has almost Zero loss at HF.
So here it is ..." Simultaneous Spots" from 6:30 pm est until 12:30 am est. Sunset was at 8:41 pm est. Basically propagation is open East......
Spots: VE3LDP vs CF3UAL - 7 MHz
As you can see CF3UAL is 3.6 db higher towards Europe the I am. Based on the reported power it should be the other way around.
Sunrise this morning was at 06:02 am est. The chart below is from about 01:30 until 07:30 est time.
Spots: VE3LDP vs CF3UAL - 7 MHz
With propagation open towards the West I am 4.5 db higher then CF3UAL.
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