Topband: 5/8 wavelength vertical is mo betta than shorter versions??

[Jim GM]

All so see http://rudys.typepad.com/ant/files/antenna_colinear_zepp.pdf


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Jim GM <jim.gmforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> See http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/zepp15.html
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> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jim GM <jim.gmforum at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> W8Ji is right with his analogy about the extended dipole.
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>> We used a 40M extended dipole for a few years on Field Day.  Our closest
>> guess was we had about 1 to 2 db over a 1/2 dipole on 40m in USA. Maybe we
>> had a lousy ground the the extended dipole over came that as W8JI had said.
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>> I believe the lobes on 40 and other bands for this antenna was to our
>> advantage for East West propagation. One of our team members looked into it
>> more.
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>> Jim K9TF
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> Jim K9TF
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