[Towertalk] GAO Challenger DX

[ccc@space.mit.edu (Chuck Counselman)]

At 9:12 PM -0700 10/6/02, Mike Lazaroff K3AIR wrote:
>...if you want to consistently be #1 in the pileups or turn-in big 
>contest scores you likely won't be happy with that antenna (or most 
>other verticals).

Agreed.  As you can read in U S Army Signal Corp manuals, calculate 
by means of NEC-4, and/or prove for yourself by experiment, for DX 
(as opposed to short-range ground-wave work) a horizontal dipole 
beats a vertical antenna of the same height.

-Chuck, W1HIS