Last few days, I have been trying to improve the performance of my newly purchased End Fed Half Wave antenna for 40, 20,15 and10 m by trying out various orientations. I could improve the performance on 40 m a bit, but 20 m performance deteriorated. In between, I could hear a few stations very strong on 10 m and the band noise was much lower than on other bands in my region. I could also have one DX and a couple of VU contacts from regions on which I have not been successful on other bands. This made me think of a half-wave dipole antenna for 10 m or 28 MHz band. Another reason was that I have homebrewed dipoles several times in the past and deployed them well as they are quite simple.
