CQ-Contest
[Top] [All Lists]

Pointing a stack different headings

Subject: Pointing a stack different headings
From: barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Hi all - I'd like to get some opinions on what happens when you point 2 
Yagis in a stack in directions about 180 deg apart.
This past weekend in WPX RTTY, at times, tried pointing upper YH7 at 
Europe and lower West (oops, that's TH7). In my thinking, you then have 
two stacked Yagis out of phase. If the gain of each was equal, you would 
then get a high angle of radiation as a result, however there's the F/B 
of each antenna to consider.
Has anyone modelled this? It didn't seem very productive during the 
contest, but this was in the afternoon when EU was past peak and West 
coast was good. Any thoughts? Tnx/Barry

--

Barry N. Kutner, W2UP       Internet: barry@w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA                 Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
                            Packet Cluster: W2UP >WB2R (FRC)
.......................................................................


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>