WA3GIN wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was reading in an old antenna book that changing the diameter of a wire
> dipole from # 14 guage to # 6 would add
> 6db gain to the antenna. Was that a typo? Did they mean to say .6db?
If even that.
Resistive losses would be less on the #6 (8 gauges is almost 3 times the
diameter), but I'd find it hard to believe that on a dipole, resistive
losses are responsible for more than a fraction of a dB.
>
> I use 2" irrigation tubing for the 40m rotating dipole, so I suppose if I
> follow the thought process in this old book my antenna is prolly worth about
> 60db, haha.
>
> 73,
> dave
> wa3gin
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