Jerry Montgomery wrote:
> Your apex-up 40 meter triangle data doesn't sound correct. Thats a
> vertically polarized antenna, and something as simple as this should
> not have that much gain.
>
> So I also modeled it. I got a 7 MHz resonance point with impedance of
> 160+j0.6. Very close to what you got. However, the max gain is only
> 1.1 dB and occurs at a take-off angle of 23 degrees. This is close to
> that of a vertical, which is approximately what it is. The only way
> you can get 6 dB of gain out of this antenna is to put it over sea > water.
> Jerry, K4SAV
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Unless I made a typing error, I did NOT specify the gain in db. It was
in dbi. Check your settings in EZNEC.
73
Ed
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