Transmitting, however it did work well on
Receive
I was able to receive East coast USA stations
at good strength both on CW es SSB but they had difficulty or could not
hear me running 400 Watts to the antenna.
When I changed over to a 1/4 wave inv L with
a vertical height of 20 metres I was able to work every one that i
could hear including ZL es VK plus all the W stns as far as W6/7 es VE7
Because the dipole was so low the angle of
radiation was too high and the transmitted RF had fizzled out on long
haul.
Surely the dipole will not as good as a 30m inv-L. But just for fun, on
holidays or fielddays or for those who have no 30m inv-L (!) it may be
an alternative. And it is fascinating :-)
Locally it was probably ok but this was not
my aim.
I have a 25 metre mast available at present
and thought about an inv V dipole for 600 metres as an experiment but
it would be so low at this frequency and exhibit high angle radiation
that it would be useless for long haul but probably very good around EU
So maybe it would perform even better in EU QSOs, maybe with lower QSB.
How many MF QSOs (not the QSX 7033 kHz stuff) outside a range of 3000
km have you done?