Excellent point.
On Jan 2, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Peter Voelpel wrote:
>
> The difference in gain of a 1/4 wave vertical with 16 1/4 wave
> radials over good ground and a dipol at 1/2 wave height is also 8db...
> Stations with beams should never compete with owners of simple antennas
> as its unfair ;-)
>
> 73
> Peter
>
>
> Von: "Stan Stockton" <k5go@cox.net>
>> Rich - I am surprised that you would laugh at 8 db and refer to it as
> "only" 8 dB - harly noticeable with QSB."
>>
>> 8 dB is only the difference between your average, city-lot shunt fed
>> tower
> on 160M and perhaps the highest gain 160M antenna in the world which,
> just
> like having that gain in transmit power, is no advantage on receive
> because
> a good beverage system would outperform that antenna on receive. 8 dB
> is
> "only" the difference between a stack of five element yagis (10
> elements)
> and approximately sixteen five element yagis (80 elements) in phase
> which
> would also perhaps be the largest antenna system on any HF band.
>
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