On 2012-09-20, at 5:55 PM, wa3mej@comcast.net wrote:
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> I noticed that some of the DXpeditions are using vertical diipoles next to
> the sea on at least some of the higher bands ( I am guessing 20 and up). I
> stuffed the data into EZNEC 5.0 and came up with some suprising results, hope
> I did it correctly I am not an antenna guru . Now as Tom has just indicated
> modeling is great but its only modeling it doesnt really tell what happens in
> the real world/ground conditions etc.
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> Does anyone have any real world experience with these dipoles? Do they work
> in non beach environments such as near the mountians? Comments welcome... and
> I am willing to take the comments off list if it suits you.
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> If this is not a fools folley I will put together what I find suprising and
> put it on my web site for everyone to access but I dont to take the time to
> document it if its a waste of time.
Hi Jim,
Here's a link in the matter of the vertical yagi array, FYI:
http://www.eham.net/articles/21116
No doubt to-day's generation of Hams blessed with computers & EZNEC will be
readily able to punch all manner of holes into the notion---but to a 30 year
old struggling with two mortgages and new marriage, the idea opened a whole new
vista onto HF DX'ing for me...
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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