[TowerTalk] Shadowing of small antennas by larger ones?

[Dave Hachadorian]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:30:55 -0500 Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
writes:
> Mechanical and wind-load considerations aside, is there a significant
> gain/pattern problem with placing a significantly larger antenna 
> above a
> smaller one on the same tower? 

Since the far-field pattern is made up of equal parts of direct
ray and ground-reflected ray, it seems to me that it wouldn't
matter which antenna is on top.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ
K6LL@juno.com

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