Very well said, Rudy. :-)
I think rhombics were sometimes chosen for receiving, because they are a
type of wave antenna like the Beverage but with a sharper pattern. But how
the two compare, I can't say.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Rudy Severns <rseverns@gmail.com> wrote:
> People tend to forget that rhombics were originally used for
> point-to-point communications with fixed azimuths and distances. While the
> gain was nice the real utility was the broadband character of the antennas,
> especially when terminated. This allowed the transmit/receive frequencies
> to be quickly changed as propagation along a given path varied. ...
>
> There are much better ways to get gain on 160m if you want to make the
> effort.
>
BTW, thanks for sharing all the research you did on ground systems. Your
work has kind of become the gold standard and the last word.
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