Johan Van de Velde wrote:
>Its commonly know that gain versus boomlength is fixed
>You ought to read DL6WU and DJ9BV's paper on this.
>
>each doubling of boomlength gives you just over 2 db extra gain.
>
But that is only for LONG yagis with typically >10 elements. It does not
apply to the (electrically) small yagis that are used on HF.
73 from Ian G3SEK Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.demon.co.uk/g3sek
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