"MUST" an EF Quad be straight when put up?

Good Morning All,
I’ve been leaning toward an EF Quad recently as my best option in a location bounded ty power lines, trees, a house, and the town’s street. I know!! Unless I hit the Powerball, I have to contend with what I’ve been dealt.

To get to the meat of this posting, as I said, I’m wanting to put up an EF-Quad. I first thought, I had enough room to put it straight from the top of a 23/25 foot mast on which I currently have an MFJ rotatable 10m dipole sloping down to a 8-10 pole. My calculations tell me I would need right at 62 feet from the mast to the termination point, but measuring this distance this morning tells me I’d be a few feet short. 4-7 to be exact. Which brings me to my question today. Must the EF Quad be deployed perfectly straight in either straight or as a sloper, or can I do something I can best describe as a “flat L” on a slope?

• This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by kd4rds.