[Towertalk] GAO Challenger DX
Chuck Counselman
ccc@space.mit.edu
Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:03:47 -0400
At 9:12 PM -0700 10/6/02, Mike Lazaroff K3AIR wrote:
>...if you want to consistently be #1 in the pileups or turn-in big
>contest scores you likely won't be happy with that antenna (or most
>other verticals).
Agreed. As you can read in U S Army Signal Corp manuals, calculate
by means of NEC-4, and/or prove for yourself by experiment, for DX
(as opposed to short-range ground-wave work) a horizontal dipole
beats a vertical antenna of the same height.
-Chuck, W1HIS