[TowerTalk] Fw: [SteppIR] 3El height

[Tom Osborne]

I guess I don't understand why someone would want to do all this to shift 
the pattern of the antenna in a different direction.  Why not just rotate it 
in the direction you want the pattern to go?  I don't think there is any way 
to make it have more gain.  73
Tom W7WHY


>I like the "squishy water balloon of constant volume" analogy for
> antenna patterns.  You can poke and prod it into a bizarre shape, >but the 
> overall power remains the same.
>