Yes indeed. I think of it this way. A 4 SQ will give about 5 dBi
and a dipole at 1/2 wl will give about 7 dBi, waist of time with
verticals.
Forexample, a shortie fortie at 70 ft will take a 4 SQ to the
cleaners.
Sure, there might be some applications for verticals on the high
bands but most of the time it would be easy to get more
performance out of a horisontal antenna.
Now, if I only could get my 40 m Yagi back up so I could junk
my verticals, oh well ..........whish towers could erect
themselves.
73, Jim SM2EKM
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Ämne: Re: [TowerTalk] Advantages of vertical arrays
At 01:47 AM 3/20/01 -0800, Tom Osborne wrote:
>I've been thinking of going to verticals here also. When working
>contests on 10 or 20, it gets tiresome turning the beam all the
>time. I have a 3 element 40 meter array and it's neat to be able
>to switch any one of 6 directions just by throwing a switch. I
>wish I had a 3 element vertical on every band. 73
Try a stack of 2-element yagis (like the Force 12 C-3) -- most often,
you
don't even have to turn it for the Caribbean or the rest of the off the
back locations... and I suspect they deliver more signal off the back
than
an array like that would deliver head on (due to ground reflection
gain, in
particular).
73, Pete N4ZR
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