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Re: [TenTec] 80m antenna suggestion

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] 80m antenna suggestion
From: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:02:53 -0500
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Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX wrote:

> typically a larger antenna will out-perform a smaller antenna.
> Thus a full wave loop, having more wire in the air, should
> out-perform a 1/2 wave dipole.


A longer piece of wire can only outperform a 1/2 wave dipole
(or a 3/8 wave dipol) in a very limited range of directions,
at expense of underperforming in all the other directions.

That's elementary law of physics which is frequently assumed
not to apply to amateur antennas. But it apllies to all antennas
equally.


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VA3TTN
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