[TowerTalk] wind load vs Rohn specs

[Stan or Patricia Griffiths]

> I'm still trying to comprehend how a 40m rotatable dipole can have the
> same drag as a 3 element 40m beam. After all, they have the same
> projected area, right?

> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
> Quote: "Boot, you transistorized tormentor! Boot!"
>             -- Archibald Asparagus, VeggieTales

>
> Now YOU are toying with US, right?  I think you have been informed that the
> element area of a Yagi is the SUM of the areas of the elements.  So a three
> element 40 meter Yagi has the same element area as three 40 meter dipole
> elements.  (But then I am sure you knew that . . . )

Stan
w7ni@teleport.com





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