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Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Stacking question - another reality data point

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Stacking question - another reality data point
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:17:06 -0700
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On Thu,8/11/2016 12:35 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
EZNEC using "real ground" says such a phasing system is not worth
the time/effort.  Remember, the ground reflection is always out of
phase with the "real" antenna so any phase difference one applies
to the higher antennas in the stack is offset by the opposite phase
from the ground reflections.

Yep. Real world conditions are far more complex than simplified "free space" models. And, of course, NEC code is written for flat homogeneous earth, another (over?) simplification.

73, Jim K9YC

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