[TowerTalk] Is there a point of diminishing returns on gain for stacking HF beams?
Steve Hunt
steve at karinya.net
Tue Jul 15 03:20:12 EDT 2008
Roger (K8RI) wrote:
> You have to double the number of antennas for each "theoretical" 3 db
> gain. It gets big and expensive fast and there are other factors that
> limit you to less than the theoretical gain.
>
Also, if you are talking about vertical stacking you can actually make
things worse at low take-off angles, depending on how high you can get
the lower antenna(s). Take a look at this analysis on my website:
http://www.karinya.net/g3txq/vertical_stacking/
73,
Steve G3TXQ
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