So that's the same response from two of us. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Ed Paradis <legomaniac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Vertical HF antennas are typically seen as "good DX" antennas because > of their low take off angle. > > The SteppIR in the back was a vertical antenna. > > 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... > >