Aerial 'Q'.

[Skywave]

David, G4EBT: I have read what you've written and understand it, but in all my many years of 'radio', I have only ever known the term 'rig' to refer exclusively to a transmitter - as is used here in the U.K. I cannot speak for American parlance.

Al.

[Junk Box Nick]

Originally Posted by HamishBoxer

I have room for a 264 foot dipole (160M)

Lucky fella!

[Tyso_Bl]

A rig is also a set up of hooks and weights to catch fish, or anything else "rigged up" to perform a specific function...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rig

[Radio Wrangler]

A better title for the thread might have been "Aerial Question"
The letter Q has special meaning in a radio context, so as it stands it will cause confusion.

David

[Arqiva BOC]

Originally Posted by HamishBoxer

I have room for a 264 foot dipole (160M) BUT it will be in a "V" configuration ,will it still perform half decently?

it'll work great, and certainly better than not putting it up!

Get the centre as high as you can, but if there's any chance someone could touch them, try and have the ends up out of reach as well

(feed it with ladder line and a good balanced tuner and it will do all the other bands for you! )

[Herald1360]

A true rig is a male horse that is carrying either one or two testicles concealed in its abdomen, making it visually appear to be a gelding, while behaving like a stallion.

[Radio Wrangler]

By the time the problem is noticed, hormone-triggered changes may have happened so later surgery still leaves the animal thinking like a stallion. Some stallions and rigs are quite well-mannered, some are dangerous to handle. Keeping a 3/4 ton beastie that will smash its way through fences and gates to get to a mare in heat a few miles away can be troublesome and expensive. In the days when transport was mainly by horse, obvious rigs weren't seen as worth the bother of keeping.

So, calling a piece of equipment a rig would originally not have been a term of endearment.

David