Topband: 160 Antenna's Modeled

[John Kaufmann]

On Thu, 19 April 2001, "Tom Rauch" wrote:

> The worse single investment I ever made was because I thought 
> the 25-35 degree radiation peak of a dipole 5/8 wl high would be 
> better than the low angle of a vertical.

I wonder how much of this difference is due to
angle-of-arrival and how much is polarization
(horizontal vs. vertical)?  It has been discussed
on this reflector and elsewhere that propagation 
on 160 exhibits polarization dependence, at least
in the more northern latitudes, and tends to favor
vertical polarization.  Comments, anyone?

73, John W1FV


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