[TowerTalk] cage dipole

[Jim Brown]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:37:49 -0400, jim Jarvis wrote:

>Horsehockey!

>A cage dipole is simply lower Q and therefore will exhibit wider 
>bandwidth than a single wire dipole. It will exhibit NO gain over 
>a single wire dipole, installed at the same height, over the same 
>earth.   That's MY engineering analysis.

Mine too, except that there can be a tiny fraction of a dB due to 
reduced wire resistance. Someone, probably the same guy, sent me 
email trying to sell me an antenna. I deleted it. Not worthy of 
response. 

73,

Jim Brown K9YC