It’s sort of an inverted V. Just this weekend on FT8, I worked South Shetland Islands, Netherlands, Venezuela, Canary Islands, England and Belgium. I bought this antenna because of the stealth nature. I don’t want to embarrass them and that’s the truth. I have compared this to the G5RV I have been using and the EFHW-8010 is far superior. Pattern is clean but gain is reduced with drooped radial cone. Have made good contacts on 10mtr local, 17 mtr to South America & 40 & 80 mtrs all across the USA from Massachusetts. If the unnoticeably less than a perfect 1/4wl ground plane This is my fist wire antenna purchase. WA7VC, Wayne N2WK (verified owner) – August 2, 2017. Feel free to read full review and see the detailed SWR plots. This is a NEGATIVE gain antenna at low angles. make Stephen N4LQ (verified owner) – April 1, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLwwzUXN3rU, John DeHarte (verified owner) – April 15, 2016. The far end is about 15 feet off the ground. As my speed picks up things should get interesting. A well made product and should last many years. I liked it so much I bought the EFHW 4010 as a traveling antenna. lengths. Best 73 Laurent FM5BH J79BH PJ7BH ……, have both the 80-10 and 40-10 versions up at right angles to each other as inverted “Ls”…….. vert part is abt 32′ with the rest horiz…… the long one slopes up to abt 45′ the short one slopes down to abt 20 feet with an 8′ ground rod under each antenna. After installation and SWR sweep on all bands (highest was 1.8 without tuner), my first contact was Israel, my report: 5/9; second contact 5 minutes later was Italy. add 2.15 dB to the I use it on 40M extensively during the day and on 80M at night. In order to I installed the feed connection about 14 feet above ground just under my 2 meter, 70 cm vertical. Very happy with this antenna. We won First Place in the USIslands QSO party in August 2016 using this antenna. horizon, a smoother pattern, and is less sensitive to mast and feed line changes. The antenna wire should be hard drawn. The feedline is 50 feet of coax. At the end of the day, I can’t say enough good things about this antenna! I can work 80’ 40’ 20’ 17’ 15’ and 10 meters. The 14ga wire assembly was sent to you Yesterday free of charge. I also took my EFHW 80 – 10 on a DX-Pedition to Mozambique as C91B in October/November 2015. As it turned out, the 80M had to be strung with a lot of bends and twists to fit the property and after making a number of QSO’s, I decided to replace it with the shorter 40M wire. This antenna beats the hell out of a G5RV, no contest. So after about 10 minutes, I’m ready to work the world with my little QRP rig. it is even useless for skywave. Used the MFJ-993B tuner to use it on 160 meters, and made FT-8 contacts on 20 and 30 watts as far away as Yorba Linda, CA from Bend, OR. Lasted less than 90 days!wire broke and was advice from the Ebay customer service to buy a replacement wire form here?nope! Called CQ with 5 watts on JT-65A. I have them up between trees with pulleys and counter weights and they withstood the New England winter FB……. My antenna works well for a shortened antenna, but for 20 meters and lower contacts are few because of the low height and power 5 watts,my radio is the Yaesu FT817ND. Construction is solid and you can see Danny’s attention to quality. Got this up today and am very happy. that can have severe feed line common mode current problems. I called My Antennas with a few questions about their EFHW-8010 in regards to my particular installation needs. Mike KM4CSY. This antenna model is in freespace, so earth reflection gain is not a factor. I installed this antenna at 60 foot at mt QTH and was impressed how it worked so well on all bands 80-10M. Only the 30 and 17mtr band I need the tuner from the TS 480, but this is due to the suspension of my Qth and not at the antenna. compared to a If It is about 25 ft off the ground strung in an L. I have a small back yard. John KK7L (verified owner) – June 20, 2017. Oddly the sticker is on upside down but at 20 feet up my old eyes can’t tell the difference and I think it works even better that way (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.). We used many multiband wire antennas before, but no one like this. My antenna is : EFHW-8010-1K I got this antenna and love it, works very well. with end-fed We cannot Scratching my head I took it down, reread the instructions and set it up as an inverted V, with the apex at roughly 45′. no way. I had several antennas that I could switch between – 40m loop, 80m loop, GAP TITAN all band vertical, 80m 1/4 wave vertical with 60 radials. I have worked DX on 80 meters with my 100 watts. Well not anymore! 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