Bill Tippett wrote:
> This reminded me of a point that I meant to make
> previously when someone said that an Inverted-L had
> its maximum directivity in the direction of the top
> loading wire. I had a 50 foot Inverted-L up the
> first year I was here in NC and decided to model it
> on Elnec to check the directivity. I found that the
> pattern was maximized in the direction OPPOSITE to
> the top loading wire. It was not a lot but on the
> order of a dB or two. Every little bit helps!
>
Bill et all,
I think you will find that the "Front to Back" that
you were seeing above is a function of the take off
angle, being less than a db @ 5 degrees and almost
3db above 30 degrees
Dave
N0DH
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