[TowerTalk] W3CRA Update

Bill Tippett btippett at alum.mit.edu
Tue May 3 18:27:54 EDT 2005


         I've zeroed in a little more closely on W3CRA's
location and added an HFTA analysis of his location.

"Given Frank's assumed location, here is the HFTA analysis.  Indeed the 
blue plot below shows gain of >12 dB over an identical antenna over flat 
terrain (red plot) at angles <4 degrees, which are quite common for 
long-haul Asian paths.  Of course this would not necessarily be a good 
contest location since paths to more populated areas like Europe are 
typically at much higher angles where a properly designed stack would work 
better."

http://users.vnet.net/btippett/w3cra.htm

                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV 



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