[TowerTalk] FW: Vertical dipole other choices?

[Jim Brown]

On 10/22/2020 12:41 PM, maflukey at gmail.com wrote:
>   I also used that GAP antenna up in the piney woods a few times and a horizontal dipole fed with ladder line hung at 100' would make the GAP performance seem like a dummy load...

Those pine trees would suck up a lot of the RF from the vertical, but 
likely far less with the horizontal antennas. That's been my experience 
in my very dense redwood forest, and I've heard that pine forests act 
like that.

73, Jim K9YC