[TowerTalk] Are higher HF antenna's really better?

[Bill Coleman]

On 1/10/02 2:11 PM, Pete Smith at n4zr@contesting.com wrote:

>Dave, look at W3LPL, KC1XX et al, with 200-foot-high yagis on 20 and 15,
>and ask yourself whether people who build stations like that would waste
>their money if one wavelength high was enough.

But these guys don't just put one antenna on these high towers. They load 
them up with yagis all driven in a stack.

I'm sure these guys rarely find conditions where a SINGLE yagi above 1.5 
wavelengths is outmatched by a SINGLE yagi higher in the stack.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901



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