[TowerTalk] Elements out of Horizontal plane

[Gary E. Jones, Ph.D.]

I tried this several days ago and got not a single response. That tells me
either that my question was incredibly stupid, or incredibly insightful. It
seems neither to me, so I will try again and see if I can get some
information. 

A hurricane blew the reflector element of my 2 element 40 out of exact
horizontal. I would guess that the reflector is about 20 degrees off of
horizontal. I have noticed a degradation in my yagi performance. Can anyone
tell me from experience or modeling what effect 20 degrees of rotation of
the reflector in a 2 element yagi, or any element for that matter has on
forward gain and beam performance. 

Any help/information would be greatly appreciated. 

								Gary    W5FI 


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