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[TowerTalk] Are higher HF antenna's really better?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Are higher HF antenna's really better?
From: cdietz@swbell.net (Logan Dietz)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:01:34 -0600

> An excellent "book" on this subject was published
> in 1993 by LTA and the Radio Bookstore.  Book is by R. Dean
> Straw, N6BV,  titled "All the Right Angles".

> Data is given for just about  everywhere on the US mainland
> to various other spots about the world

Much of this is in the current ARRL Antenna Book, which also includes a
disk.  It will tell you the arrival angle from various QTHs so that antenna
heights can be calculated to take advantage of the arrival angle most
frequently encountered for the desired path.

Chuck, W5PR


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