[TowerTalk] takeoff angle for verticals

[Eric Gustafson Courtesy Account]

>Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:07:39 -0500
>From: "Kris Mraz, N5KM" <mraz@aud.alcatel.com>
>
>Are the takeoffs angles for radial-less verticals such as the R7
>and radial-ed verticals such as the Butternut HF-9V identical
>given identical nearfield/farfield ground conditions?
>--
>
>73
>Kris N5KM 
>mailto:mraz@aud.alcatel.com


Very similar but not quite exactly the same.  Mostly the
differences are due to the differing apparent height of the
antenna's phase center (for relatively equal sized radiators)
from the plane of the earth.

73, Eric  N7CL

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