Hi, After many years of operating in hf contests, I have just started operating in vhf contests. Over the years I found that it was possible for one's antenna to be either too low or too high for suc
Dave I did look briefly at this subject a few years ago....no measurements, just some simplistic analysis along the lines of what W2PV did much earlier for HF. This work was published in the 2004 Cen
50-60 feet is a good average height to shoot for. (Wish I could get my 2x5el stack that high.) However, sporadic-E can want take-off angles all the way from flat (0 degrees) up to around 16 degrees f
Excellent summary, Bill. That is entirely in agreement with the calculations I was doing back in 2004. I figured that, from a contest perspective, if limited to a single antenna it was probably bette
If you can put up a 6M yagi *really* high -- the pattern will approach free space. The nulls Bill W5WVO notes go away. You will be loud at all E-skip distances and for groundwave. This situation may
This is indeed true. I experienced this once, during the solar cycle minimum of the mid-1970s -- not on 6 meters, but the principle is the same. A friend and I were operating the California QSO Party