Well last year I put up an Inverted L (100' vertical, 70' horizontal)
with 20 full size radials on a separate tower and compared it
to my half slopers. I didn't do any transmit comparisons but my receive
comparisons were 2-3 S units down from the half sloper. Admittedly I
didn't do the comparison using good specific comparison techniques for
a technical report. But my 'ballparking' comparison gave me enough
information to decide whether to continue the testing or not. My initial
evaluation did not warrant further Inverted L testing. The test
configuration
is still in place as I haven't taken it down yet. Maybe I will look at
it again as we all know that you cannot have too many antennas.
Doug/VA5DX
That's right Jerry, and that's really the bottom line. The
best we can hope for is a tie with a shunt fed or series fed
vertical or Inverted L. The worse is something much worse
than that.
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