Kelly Taylor wrote:
> The model I seem to recall, either by K9YC or W8JI, involved the feedline
> running to the base of the tower to a choke and then up the tower to
> another
> choke at the feedpoint.
And after all that, the elevation pattern would be considerably
inferior to a dipole, as documented in the ARRL Antenna Handbook
in a graph illustrating the pseudo Brewster angle effects for
horizontal vs vertical polarization. There is a reason why
you rarely see vertically polarized antennas on a tower, unless
ground wave propagation is involved.
Rick N6RK
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