I would think a 5/8 would be good for the various 160 contests where a lot
of contacts are short distances and the extended groundwave plus some power
at 40 degrees could be useful.
Wth 3 antennas, a 1/4 wave, a 5/8 or 1/2 wave and a horizontal cloud warmer
or for DX ducting, would cover all bases.
OTOH a 1/4 wave only a few hundred feet away could null some of the signal.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Cunningham" <[email protected]>
To: "'Mike Waters'" <[email protected]>; "'topband'"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: 5/8 wavelength vertical is mo bettathan
shorterversions??
Quite a bit of the radiation from 5/8 wave verticals is at relatively high
elevation angles - above 40 degrees elevation.
(Perhaps useful for VHF mobiles that need to hit mountain top or hill-top
repeaters)
Charlie, K4OTV
-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike
Waters
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:53 AM
To: topband
Subject: Re: Topband: 5/8 wavelength vertical is mo betta than
shorterversions??
A lot of hams on 160m have been similarly "shocked". :-)
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Niko Cimbur <[email protected]> wrote:
We were shocked to find that the existing 1/4 wl performed better than
the
much taller [5/8 wave] Vertical.
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