> Unfortunately in the real world you are not going to find a station
> where you could take those measurements that is not encumbered with
> stuff that would make your measurements questionable. Things like
> other towers, other antennas, power lines, buildings, hills, rivers,
> the ocean, etc, etc, etc. and even if you did find a reasonable place
> where someone had put a single 10m antenna at 200' with nothing around
> it how would you make the measurements? Days of helicopter flights up
> and down and around and around? Then prove the helicopter wasn't
> disrupting the pattern you were trying to measure?
>
> Now, once you have made such a single set of measurements, what do
> they prove? You get a pattern for one antenna on one tower over one
> specific topography. The worst part is that the pattern you measure
> would change when the ground froze or thawed, when another antenna was
> put on the tower, when antennas on the tower rotated relative to each
> other, when the neighbor moved his RV, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum per
> real world.
So instead, we assume can use a model and get accurate results
100% of the time that apply to the same situation?
Or am I missing something?
73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com
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