Thanks to all of you that have emailed me privately (so many!) and several
who have replied here.
I think at this moment I may have rethink this. I really like the broad
pattern a 4-square produces for contesting (example, to the SW I can still
work most of the Carib quite easily) and to the NE; Scandanavia down through
most of the NW corner of AF is easy to work.
I had somehow forgotten about the decreased azimuthal width of the frontal
lobe part of stacking "side by each" (as we sometimes say up here). I
should have clued in to this as I had long 2m beams like this and in a box
pattern, but it's been a couple decades now and in my haste to gather info I
equated stacking with pure gain. My bad.
I think going forward I may look at phasing (stacking) my current 20m
4-square with a switchable delta loop (wire) yagi in the trees. Maybe a 3el
where the DE is constant and I can flip-flop the directors and reflectors to
get 2-directions. At one time I had a very low 15m/20m
(conjoined/colocated) delta loop (single wire) which I did try phasing with
the 20m array but all that really accomplished was seemingly just to give up
directivity and add noise.
Thanks all....and I apologize to not replying to you all individually. I am
usually very good at that, but there were simply too many emails to do
individual replies any kind of justice. !
CU soon
Mike VE9 Antenna Antenna
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB
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