That is not a lot of gain.. What band where you thinking of using? That is a
long horizontal wire to hold out and rotate for just 3dB
I modeled a vertical with one resonant radial and yes it slewed the pattern,
so there would be some gain.
Mark N1UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com>
To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, 12 May, 2011 3:23 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Vertical with 1 radial
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> Hi All
>
> In the past 2 months, I have seen two different articles in ARRL
> publications that say a vertical with 1 radial has gain in the direction
> of
> the radial. One said 3 db. Evidently Eznec confirmed this.
>
> Why the heck do I bother putting down all those radials under my
> verticals??
> According to one article, 1 radial is best because it gives the antenna a
> real wide bandwitch, SWR is close to 50 ohms, and has gain in the
> direction
> of the radial. Seems like those symptoms would give loss not gain.
>
> Is this true, or is the ARRL just publishing anything now? Sure is
> different from anything I've ever known about verticals.
>
> Seems like I should be able to put up an antenna with 1 radial on my rotor
> and I could point it just like a beam. Fill me in. 73
> Tom W7WHY
>
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