[TowerTalk] Holy SteppIR!

[StellarCAT]

adjusting the vertical tilt of an antenna does nothing to raise 
(or even change) the radiation angle... or at least this was the 
conclusion W2PV came to in his book.

g.



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Interesting, Clay. I went back and looked at the pictures more 
carefully
and indeed it looks like he has elevation control as well as 
azimuth. As you
point out, this will allow him to adjust the take-off-angle. 
What it won't
give him is the broad vertical lobe fill that you get from an 
optimized
stack,
so it will still be a compromise for contesting. For DXing, 
assuming he
gets it pointed correctly, he should be the first guy through 
most of the
time. Really puts my inverted-vees at 60' to shame. Guess I 
should have
listened to an early engineering mentor who suggested that I 
should become
a chiropractor :)

Mike, W4EF......