We are going to bust some of them in this article and try to put matters in perspective. This is one example of the many myths that prevail. This belief is certainly true for these antennas in either free-space or those deployed very high above the ground, but might not so much be, in the case of most of the typical and practical amateur radio antenna installations. There is a general belief that a dipole antenna will typically produce a set of bi-directional radiation lobes in the azimuth plane, whereas, an Inverted V pattern will be nearly omnidirectional. Readers are requested to read the article if they wish because practically all the concepts and features discussed in relation to a standard dipole are also applicable to the Inverted V. Therefore, I will not repeat what we have already discussed in the article titled The Ubiquitous Dipole Antenna. The performance characteristics of an Inverted V antenna is not too different from a horizontal dipole. It is essentially another dipole antenna that is physically oriented in a slightly different manner than a regular one.
Many people might tend to consider an Inverted V as an antenna of a separate genre with its own unique performance characteristics, but it is not.
However, the non-resonant variety is relatively less common, therefore in this article, I will stick to the 1/2λ resonant Inverted V antenna and leave the discussion on the non-resonant variety to another article. Just as a regular dipole may or may not always be of resonant 1/2λ length, an Inverted V too may not always be cut to resonance. In his article, I will try to bust some of the myths associated with Inverted V and dipoles. An Inverted V antenna is a very popular variant of the standard horizontal dipole.
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