[Antennas] Effective ways to use lots of land, trees and wire?

Sat Jan 17 06:54:19 EST 2009

Land, trees, and wire eh?

Trees - cut down, use for fuel to heat house or sell for cash to buy
hardware.
Land - now that the land is clear, put up big towers, the taller the better.
Wire - guy the towers with it or build inverted V's from the tops of the
towers.

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net

-----Original Message-----
From: C. Whitaker [mailto:whitaker at pa.net] 
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 02:58
To: antennas at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Antennas] Effective ways to use lots of land, trees and wire?

de WB2CPN,
The only way to get gain (?) in all horizontal directions is to
lower the main radiation angle in all directions. If you can easily
flatten the top of the radiation patern, patent it. Years ago we
used to say, "A vertical antenna: One that radiates equally poor
in all directions." A switchable wire-array which someone
mentioned is a good idea if you have a tuner that can handle
some of the weird J-factors you could encounter.
73 Clete

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