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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Dipole gain?
From: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:52:00 +0000
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I agree that Free Space figures are probably the least ambiguous; but I'm not convinced that "averages" are very helpful!

What do we mean by "average"? What's the average of two F/B ratios, one of 10dB and one of 20dB?

[The average of 10dBW and 20dBW is 17.4dBW]

A "not worse than" figure across the bandwidth may be more meaningful.

Steve G3TXQ


On 11/12/2014 10:30, Stan Stockton wrote:
If every antenna were compared to every other antenna in terms of free space 
gain and all in the same unit of measure (say dBI) and if the numbers for gain 
F/B, F/R, etc were shown as average across the band then there are no 
additional questions to ask to determine which antenna is better or best.



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