Reg, when I penned the thread beginnings I was trying to evoke
fresh thinking about the subject so as to challenge ideas that are spread by
plagurism in a similar way that the ballon is shown to demonstrate how
directivity /gain occurs.
Ham radio operators are lead to believe that the height above ground of
a beam's feed point determines the take off angle. It is true that it does
have an effect on the TOA, say 75 percent, when other actions are taken
to change the angle and 95 percent or so if no other actions are taken.
Thus if actions are taken to lower the TOA one can take advantage of
physical hops that were not available for a similar feed point height.
This is why I returned to the thread to dispute the statement that you
made regarding no amount of antenna waving can change the facts.
Regards from another indentured apporentice from the school of
Engineering and Navigation along side of the East India Docks
which was attended by many from the cable company further
down the river
Art







Edwards" wrote in message
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"Reg Edwards" wrote
The elevation angle of a radio wave is not related to antenna
construction.


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BUT NO AMOUNT OF WAVING THE ANTENNA ABOUT WILL AFFECT THE ELEVATION ANGLE
OF
THE RADIO PATH.

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Why should my answer to the question be altogether different to everybody
else's? Especially as I'm right.
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Possibly because you were addressing a different question




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Reg.