Gang I've googled this, and have no real answer, so, I turn to the real knowledge base of the hobby--you guys! We are planning on a FD effort, with a local club this year, and are considering antenna
A quick modeling job on the superloop shows that the gain in its best direction is very close to that of a dipole at the height of the top wire on both 80 and 40 (probably within 1 dB). Maximum gain
You could use a DX Blaster cage dipole with a manufacture's claim of 5dbd gain. Their website http://dxblaster.com suggests many operators experience 2"s" units of gain or 12 db. Gang I've googled th
Does anyone here actually believe that a cage dipole will outperform a dipole by 5 dB? For that matter, does anyone actually believe that 2 S-units is even close to 12 dB on most ham rigs. I'm sure t