On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:51:49 -0600, K4SAV wrote:
>If you have two 80 ft
>trees, you could put up a horizontal dipole that would beat the half
>sloper and the vertical.
Until I moved to California this spring, I never had a decent antenna,
let alone two decent antennas. Now that I have some good high dipoles
and a pretty good vertical, I've learned firsthand that vertical
directivity is at least as important as horizontal directivity, and
often more so.
A broad statement that a dipole will outperform a vertical is a
generality that is NOT true. On the other hand, it IS true that under
a given set of propagation conditions, either the vertical or the
dipole may outperform the other by 10 dB or more. Terrain does not
allow me to use a 40M vertical effectively, but my experience tells me
that my 70 ft top-loaded vertical will often blow the pants off of my
100 ft high dipole on 80 and 160, especially for several hours both
sides of sunset or sunrise.
A study of antennas of various height using Dean Straw's HFTA software
(in the ARRL Antenna Book) can be quite instructive. It was for me.
73,
Jim Brown K9YC
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