Mike, consider that the soil on some cliff tops is the same as that at the base, if the cliff is formed as a geologic fault. Then, it would be no better nor worse than the soil down on level ground.
That is not the main reflection gain mechanism from the elevated cliff side dipole, as my other post points out. It is the lower angles of take off that are reflected out from the hill. The ones absorbed in normal back yard antennas locations. See the paper in the ARRL Antenna Compendium series. Sorry I don't have the volume number here, but if you can find a table of contents, the title of the paper makes it clear it is a study of antennas on hills. Stuart K5KVH _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
