[TowerTalk] Dipole gain?

[Steve Hunt]

Stan,

I was trying to highlight a particular issue - that averaging the dB 
figures themselves is a pretty meaningless exercise. In my example, the 
average rearward power ratio would be 12.6dB not 15dB.

I think it's more meaningful to specify worst case parameters, or better 
still best and worst across the band. We tend to do that in the case of 
SWR, so why not Gain and other parameters. Quoting an "average" SWR 
across a band would tell us nothing useful.

As an earlier poster pointed out, averages can give misleading results; 
for example, anyone reading this who has two legs has more than average ;)

Steve G3TXQ




On 11/12/2014 16:44, Stan Stockton wrote:
> Steve,
>
> In your unlikely example it would be 15 dB.