Re: Topband: 5/8 wavelength vertical is mo betta than shorter versions??

[Jim GM <jim.gmforum@gmail.com>]

See http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/zepp15.html


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jim GM <jim.gmforum@gmail.com> wrote:

> W8Ji is right with his analogy about the extended dipole.
>
> We used a 40M extended dipole for a few years on Field Day.  Our closest
> guess was we had about 1 to 2 db over a 1/2 dipole on 40m in USA. Maybe we
> had a lousy ground the the extended dipole over came that as W8JI had said.
>
> I believe the lobes on 40 and other bands for this antenna was to our
> advantage for East West propagation. One of our team members looked into it
> more.
>
> --
> Jim K9TF
>



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Jim K9TF
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