Richard Clark wrote:
Mark's experience eclipses this nonsense of Flat Earth Socialist
rhetoric.

Mark hasn't tried a 130 foot dipole on 10m at the same
height as his vertical in the direction of one of the
four 11 dBi at 7 deg lobes. Even with a perfect ground,
his vertical tops out at about 5 dBi, a full s-unit
below the dipole's best lobes.

Flat Earth thinking equates to asserting that a vertical
monopole will beat a +11 dBi beam (or lobe).
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73, Cecil, W5DXP