[TowerTalk] vert. polarized yagi

[Peter Larsen]

tgstewart@pepco.com wrote:
> 
> The disadvantage to vertical polarization is that you lose the
> additional
> gain provided by ground reflections, which is many db's for all but
> ground
> wave signals on 10 meters at any reasonable antenna height.
> 

Also consider that the 3 dB down points are wider on a vertically
polarized yagi. From free space to over ground on my home brew
5 elem yagi on ten is about 5 dB. 10 dBi in free space to
15.9 dBi over real ground. According to YagiMax 2 any ways.

73 es have fun.
Peter

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