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I've currently got a long-wire antenna (made from 24 ga. wire recovered from CAT-5) running to a receive only MW/HF radio. It is hung from a tree bough down to a window and looks approximately like this:

I have seen other configurations of wire antennas that recommend a "right-angle" configuration like this:

Is the latter more likely to yield better reception? Does it really matter for receive-only?