> By the "same directional properties" I meant that they will have the
> same total beam width exposure to the sky. (not necessarily in the
> same direction) This total beam width is the sum of both vertical and
> horizontal beams.
I know what you are trying to say, but that still is not true.
Efficiency can be different and/or considerable power can go into
spurious lobes on one and not the other.
For example, Rhombics have very poor efficiency and many minor
lobes, and have a very narrow sinX/X pattern shape for the same
gain as other antennas.
> If you add up all of the area of the sky that each antenna beam is
> exposed to due to each ones horizontal and vertical beam widths, I
> think you will find that given the same gain for each they will also
> have equal total exposure area.
Only when efficiency is the same....and it also only works when
noise is uniformly distributed...which it almost never is.
73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com
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