Thats the beauty of a vertical dipole. No need to try and achieve a perfect
ground. My 40M ground plane vertical I had with 8 elevated radials 10 feet
above the ground was a good performer for DX but the vertical dipole knocks it
socks off, hihi. I am taking down the horizontal dipole since I only chase
DX.
How is your ground conductivity ? Mine is very good.
Bob
K6UJ
> On Oct 22, 2020, at 9:39 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
>
> I find this very surprising! A vertical does not really have a low radiation
> angle unless it is over a perfect ground. Assuming that your vertical dipole
> base is near the ground I would expect the 115 ft high dipole blow it away
> the in the favored direction.
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> Robert Harmon k6uj wrote:
>
> I actually did the same scenario here. I have a full size 40M dipole at 115
> feet and I fabbed a vertical full size dipole for 40M and hung it from the
> side of the tower for comaprison. On DX the vertical won hands down on
> every sig. On closer in, stateside stuff stuff the horizontal dipole was
> the best. Not suprising, the vertical dipole has a lower angle of radiation.
> I also checked to be sure the tower wasn't interacting with the vertical
> dipole to be sure it didn't screw up th pattern. I am very pleased with the
> vertical dipole's performance (for DX)
>
> Bob
> K6UJ
>
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