[TowerTalk] 43 foot Vertical claim

[Richards]

Thanks, Jerry --

I guess the good news is that I was not looking for this
antenna to do well higher than, say, 17 meters - My target
bands were 160-20 - and it seems to work WELL ENOUGH
on my target bands.

I have other antennas for these higher bands, which are
designed for them.

I intend this to be a "good"  multi band antenna.... but it is
not an  "all " band antenna.    I should have been more clear
as to the target bands I expect to use it on.

Sidebar -
I find it interesting few of the critics have emphasized how it is
an omni directional antenna, and as a local ham repeatedly tells
me... it "radiates equally bad in all directions."   I acknowledge
this is a potential weakness for some users - as there is no
directional gain as you might get from even the simplest beam
design.

And yet that is part of what appealed to me!   It gives me a
simple, single solution to the problem of wanting to make contacts
all over the place.    So... I purposely traded directional gain for
versatility.

Eventually, a medium sized tower with beam antennas is in
my future.   And then I will be able to support some higher and
longer wire antennas.   I am learning about that as I go, but for
now, this is an affordable single solution for a complex problem.


==============   K8JHR  ========================

K4SAV wrote:

> 
> Band ___  Take-off angle ___ Gain at 10 deg
>  17  _______  43  __________  -3.2 dBi
>  15  _______  37  __________  -5 dBi
>  12  _______  32  __________  -5.1 dBi
>  10  _______  56  __________  -5.6 dBi
>   6  _______  65  __________  -7.6 dBi
> 
> For all the bands listed above, most of the signal goes up at an angle 
> that never comes back to the earth, however at the lower elevations 
> angles which may be useful for communications, there is still enough 
> energy to make some contacts even though the antenna would be beaten 
> very badly by a low dipole.  You still have to add tuner loss and coax 
> loss to this and without a remote tuner, in some cases that may be very 
> significant depending on the coax used.
> 
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