W8Ji is right with his analogy about the extended dipole. We used a 40M extended dipole for a few years on Field Day. Our closest guess was we had about 1 to 2 db over a 1/2 dipole on 40m in USA. Maybe we had a lousy ground the the extended dipole over came that as W8JI had said.
I believe the lobes on 40 and other bands for this antenna was to our advantage for East West propagation. One of our team members looked into it more. -- Jim K9TF _________________ Topband Reflector
