At 09:25 AM 1/10/02 -0800, Dave wrote:
>
>My understanding is a yagi performs as good as it possibly can when it is 1
>electrical wavelength above the ground. Any additional height is redundant.
Dave, look at W3LPL, KC1XX et al, with 200-foot-high yagis on 20 and 15,
and ask yourself whether people who build stations like that would waste
their money if one wavelength high was enough.
73, Pete N4ZR
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