Topband: Monopole Elev Pattern w.r.t. Earth Conductivity

[Mike Waters]

I didn't remember W8LT's 5/8 wave balloon verticals. But I do recall your
telling me about your neighbor's inverted-L nearly always being about the
same strength as your old 120' tower  in Ohio on 160. Do you recall how
high the vertical portion of his inverted-L was?

So according to your tests, the ~5/8 wave tower was always inferior to the
190' tower, no matter what the distance was? That is very interesting, And
I have little doubt all your towers had sufficient radials under them. :-)

What do you think about 120' vs 190' ?  Ever do any tests like that?

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:

> Did you --or anyone else you are aware of-- ever A-B test a ~120' tower
>> against a ~300' tower on 160?
>>
>
> I A-B or A-B-C tested several antennas, including a low dipole, the high
> dipole, an element from my four square, a ~318 foot  insulated tower
> vertical, and I think my tall omni vertical was about 190 feet at that time.
>
> The tall vertical tower was definitely worse compared to shorter
> verticals, and had almost no short skip signal around Georgia. I had
> isolation chokes for lights and a base insulator, but that 300+ foot tower
> was so poor I never used it as a vertical.
> 73 Tom
>