[VHFcontesting] Stacked Moxon's

[Keith Morehouse]

Commercial omni antennas are specified with "down-tilt" all the time,
usually to enhance close-in performance in a mobile environment.   It's
done by altering the phasing between the stacked vertical elements, as you
suggested.

Jay W9RM

Keith J. Morehouse
via DROID 3
On Aug 8, 2014 2:00 PM, "Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting" <
vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:

> Something that I am going to try, someday, is stacking antennas with some
> downlook. I look at the vertical patterns of low to the ground or vehicle
> mounted horizontal antennas and wonder what would happen if I added a few
> degrees of phase lag on the upper antenna? This should lower the  radiation
> angle. Has anybody ever modeled this?
>
> Buddy WB4OMG
>
>
> In a message dated 8/8/2014 2:49:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> mike at ka5cvh.com writes:
>
> I'm  playing around with some ideas for portable activation and roving.
> Would there be any advantage to stacking moxons on six?  I'm
> thinking  that you could tighten the vertical angle some but don't know
> if that would  really help or hurt?   I presume that you would space
> them as you  would any yagi. Or am I so far off base I should be
> embarrassed for asking  :-)
>
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