As a teen on the cb bands I made a dipole of which one leg was hung out my bedroom window, as my Dad would not let me put up an outdoor antenna, so yesterday I made a dipole for 40m as an inverted vee running N/S.
Using my HF analyzer made trimming it to 7100 a breeze and I was on the bands, then I found my new ears were picking up around S9 of QRM, not so good.
I did manage one contact though, GI8SKN, David in Carrickfergus north of Belfast, for a nice 5/9 both ways, my first into N.Ireland.
Thinking later I'm puzzled, as I put the dipole up to work Europe/USA, east/west.
Hi Paul, a dipole is a good antenna. Though in urban locations we pick up always a lot of man made noise. My broad band vertical picks up less noise. My dipole does pick up more noise. We'll have to live with it, I'm afraid. 73 Paul
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