Roy Lewallen wrote:
A plain dipole 76 feet above perfect ground has a gain of about 8.6 dBi

Is that true? I've always heard it was slightly over two dB. I re-read
your post and I don't think I'm taking what you said out of context. Did I?

73,
kz1o

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