[TowerTalk] Stacking Dissimilar Antennas

[Pete Smith]

This is true, of course, but an even more important advantage, IMO, is take-off angle diversity; simply by switching from both antennas to the bottom one, I often find that it will revitalize a European run that had seemed to be drying up.  Top-only does not have the same effect, because the center of the first lobe is still at the same angle as the stack, or very close to it.

73, Pete

At 07:34 AM 8/21/2006, Mark Beckwith wrote:
>> Just one added point - for tri-bander stacks,
>> spacings of less than .5 wavelength on 20M are
>> quite common because the spacing used is
>> necessarily a compromise between three bands
>> (or at least 2, these days).
>
>Also, gain is often not the main goal when stacking tribanders; the main 
>goal is often to cover two directions at once.
>
>Mark, N5OT
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