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Subject: TopBand: Beverage terminating resistor
From: k0ha@navix.net (Bill Hohnstein)
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 19:00:52 -0800
Earl W Cunningham, K6SE wrote:
> 
> ...This time I took greater care in determining the optimum
> termination resistances...
> 
> ... I ... viewed the elevation pattern to "determine" the best
> termination for low-angle (groundwave) rejection to the rear...
> 

  Why is there so much concern on Beverages and Yagis on front-to-back
ratio?  I always design my Beverages and Yagis to have a small back
lobe with two nulls on either side of it to increase the size of the
null area...

73,  Bill     K0HA


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