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

[Charlie Cunningham]

Quite a bit of the radiation from 5/8 wave verticals is at relatively high
elevation angles - above 40 degrees elevation.

(Perhaps useful for VHF mobiles that need to hit mountain top or hill-top
repeaters)

Charlie, K4OTV


-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Waters
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:53 AM
To: topband
Subject: Re: Topband: 5/8 wavelength vertical is mo betta than
shorterversions??

A lot of hams on 160m have been similarly "shocked". :-)

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Niko Cimbur <ac6dd at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> We were shocked to find that the existing 1/4 wl performed better than the
> much taller [5/8 wave] Vertical.
>
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