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Re: [TowerTalk] Fw: [SteppIR] 3El height

To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fw: [SteppIR] 3El height
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:20:37 -0700
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I guess I don't understand why someone would want to do all this to shift 
the pattern of the antenna in a different direction.  Why not just rotate it 
in the direction you want the pattern to go?  I don't think there is any way 
to make it have more gain.  73
Tom W7WHY


>I like the "squishy water balloon of constant volume" analogy for
> antenna patterns.  You can poke and prod it into a bizarre shape, >but the 
> overall power remains the same.
>

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