Topband: Topband. Vertical dipoles in the real world

[Eddy Swynar]

On 2012-09-20, at 5:55 PM, wa3mej at comcast.net wrote:

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> I noticed that some of the DXpeditions are using vertical diipoles next to the sea on at least some of the higher bands ( I am guessing 20 and up).  I stuffed the data into EZNEC 5.0 and came up with some suprising results, hope I did it correctly I am not an antenna guru . Now as Tom has just indicated modeling is great but its only modeling it doesnt really tell what happens in the real world/ground conditions etc. 
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> Does anyone have any real world experience with these dipoles?  Do they work in non beach environments such as near the mountians? Comments welcome... and I am willing to take the comments off list if it suits you. 
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> If this is not a fools folley I will put together what I find suprising and put it on my web site for everyone to access but I dont to take the time to document it if its a waste of time.  


Hi Jim,

Here's a link in the matter of the vertical yagi array, FYI:

http://www.eham.net/articles/21116

No doubt to-day's generation of Hams blessed with computers & EZNEC will be readily able to punch all manner of holes into the notion---but to a 30 year old struggling with two mortgages and new marriage, the idea opened a whole new vista onto HF DX'ing for me...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ