At 09:31 AM 1/13/03 -0600, W0UN--John Brosnahan wrote:
>Pete, I don't think you can have it both ways. If they are the same gain
>and one has a wider
>azimuth beam width it must have a narrower elevation beam width. That
>gain (power) has
>to come from somewhere and if it gets spread over a wider azimuth the only
>place it
>can come from is from the elevation beam width. All assuming that side
>lobe performance
>is good enough to make any energy in the side lobes to be relatively
>insignificant.
I understand the point you're making -- the old water balloon analogy --
some fussy detail about the conservation of energy...hi But doesn't it
come out of higher-angle secondary forward lobes? That certainly seems to
be what my modeling shows, particularly with 1X/2X stacks.
73, Pete N4ZR
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