[TowerTalk] HY-GAIN 18HT HIGH TOWER & CTSVR

[w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)]

alsopb@vance.net wrote 
> A vertical is a vertical is a vertical.  You can at best be 2.2 db 
>worse than a dipole.

Yeah, but that 2.2 db worse that a dipole is at about 15 degrees, where 
your lobe at 50 feet on 80 meters is 2.2 db better straight up.
Tom

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