>The best gain that generations of 2-meter yagi designers have been able
>to achieve with that electrical boom length (4.1 wavelengths) is about
>15.5dBd (17.65dBi) in free space.
>
>Throw in a few more dB for assumed ground-reflection gain and, yes, you
>may be somewhere in the "19dB" region.
The KS9K/W9JA 20M 4 stack of 5 el models at 15.5dBi free-space and
19.15dBi at 7 degrees over ground. Although this is not a single
yagi, I thought I would throw this in for comparison.
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Chad Kurszewski, WE9V e-mail: Chad_Kurszewski@csg.mot.com
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