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Re: [TowerTalk] FW: Vertical dipole other choices?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] FW: Vertical dipole other choices?
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:12:23 -0700
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On 10/22/2020 12:41 PM, maflukey@gmail.com wrote:
  I also used that GAP antenna up in the piney woods a few times and a 
horizontal dipole fed with ladder line hung at 100' would make the GAP 
performance seem like a dummy load...

Those pine trees would suck up a lot of the RF from the vertical, but likely far less with the horizontal antennas. That's been my experience in my very dense redwood forest, and I've heard that pine forests act like that.

73, Jim K9YC
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