Directional wire antennae

[DD5LP]

Rather than repeating it, this other recent thread on this reflector has several suggestions that might be of interest in it:

Using 2 dipoles to make a Yagi?

My attempts over the weekend to reach VK/ZL on 20m SSB were ultimately unsuccessful although my call was twice faintly heard but not strongly enough to complete a QSO. I was using a dipole on a 6m mast which I thought would give the best performance with my 10W transmitted from a low hill. Of course finding a higher summit would probably have been better but was there a way I missed to improve the antenna? I have two 6m poles with me and two dipoles, a 40/30/20 and a 20/17/15. The overlap at 2…

73 Ed.