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Subject: | Re: Topband: 5/8 wavelength vertical is mo betta than shorter versions?? |
From: | Jim GM <jim.gmforum@gmail.com> |
Date: | Mon, 9 Sep 2013 10:48:19 -0500 |
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See http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/zepp15.html On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jim GM <jim.gmforum@gmail.com> wrote: > W8Ji is right with his analogy about the extended dipole. > > We used a 40M extended dipole for a few years on Field Day. Our closest > guess was we had about 1 to 2 db over a 1/2 dipole on 40m in USA. Maybe we > had a lousy ground the the extended dipole over came that as W8JI had said. > > I believe the lobes on 40 and other bands for this antenna was to our > advantage for East West propagation. One of our team members looked into it > more. > > -- > Jim K9TF > -- Jim K9TF _________________ Topband Reflector |
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