[TowerTalk] Re: Can takeoff angle be too low?

[alsopb]

Last time I checked in antenna modeling program, extremely high
antennas do as this says.  However, the peak value of this envelope is
down 5 db from mor typical yagi patterns. 

You don't get something for nothing.

73 de Brian/K3KO

Dave Hachadorian wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:41:42 -0600 n4kg@juno.com writes:
> 
> >       Simple translation:  NO  SINGLE  ANTENNA can cover
> >       ALL the angles supported by the ionosphere.  de N4KG
> 
> A possible exception, reported a few days ago by someone
> else on the reflector, is an extremely high antenna, where
> the nulls in the pattern seem to get filled in.
> 
> W3LPL (who has no shortage of antennas) told me a couple
> years ago that his consistently best 10 meter antenna is
> a single large yagi at 200 feet. He attributed its success
> to this null-filling effect.
> 
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
> K6LL@juno.com
> 
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