You're probably right, Pete, but that 15 KW up there at 200+' fed by a big
pressurized heliax hardline can make up for a lot of disadvantage in gain!
73, Jerry W5KP
> There is one of these, with the discone, at the FAA control center in
> Leesburg, VA. Huge, but I betcha that on any discrete frequency band a
> typical amateur monobander 2-stack would have significantly greater
> performance. What they got was sdme gain over a very large frequency
range.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
>
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