Actually verticals are really popular with the DX crowd I believe because of take off angles. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Doug Philips <douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Curious thing is that at Airglow, it seemed that Dave was running a > horizontal antenna. I don't know what the other folks were using. > Thought I had remembered that UHF/VHF was mostly vertical and the HF bands > mostly horizontal. Hence this vertical HF antenna seems iffy... > > -D > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 14:11, Matt Stultz <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Yeah, flag pole antennas are really common way of hiding them. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Doug Philips >> <douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> >>> Jenny sent this on to me (now that I have an HF-rig 'n'all)... >>> Forwarding it along since I know at least Ed is looking at trap antennas >>> and maybe some other folks'd be interested as well... >>> >>> -D >>> >>> >> >