TopBand: HEARD better on xmit antenna

[Bill Tippett]

N0JK wrote:

>Would "antipodal focusing" possibly explain
>why NA ops have copied Heard better on their
>XMIT antennas? Most ops have directional receive
>but omni-directional xmit arrays and thus could
>receive VK0IR from several paths on the transmit
>antenna. 

This is an excellent hypothesis by Jon!  The only
problem with it I see is that most of the guys who
are observing the "better on the transmit antenna"
phenomenon are about 1500 miles away from VK0IR's
antipode in mid-VE5.  I was only about 120 miles
from FT5ZB's antipode when I was in Colorado and there
was a very distinctive directivity to his signal which
was along his true Great Circle bearing (316 degrees 
from Colorado which was exactly on my JA Beverage).
I guess I would conclude that this is not the cause
but still don't have a better explanation.

                                73,  Bill  W4ZV


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