[TowerTalk] Site Elevation and TOA

[John Langdon]

The verticals suffer more from poor ground conductivity especially at low
radiation angles (Pseudo-Brewster angle etc.) so they seem even better in a
good location, but the yagis and quads do better too, all else being equal.

I believe one of his secrets was that he also had yagi receiving antennas
mounted 'down the mountain' so as to be shielded from the stateside QRM,
plus a few other switching strategies :)!

73 John N5CQ

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard (Rick) Karlquist [mailto:richard at karlquist.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 5:20 PM
To: K7LXC at aol.com; towertalk at contesting.com; jlangdon1 at austin.rr.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Site Elevation and TOA



On 6/18/2014 5:35 PM, K7LXC--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>      Aren't we all? Hi. W7RM, a pioneering multi, multi  contest 
> station (on a bluff above NaClH2O) claimed the saltwater was worth 10  dB.
Know what?
> He's probably right. It's like magic. That's why many of those  
> Caribbean stations are loud.

One thing that I always wondered about with W7RM is whether his verticals on
the beach (which he used for receive
only) would have made killer transmit antennas.  It seems to me that the
salt water would make a lot more difference with vertical polarization.

Rick N6RK