OOH!
If you want a 'gain' antenna - the easiest to do is a 5/8-wave for a
vertical, and you just add enough of a coil at the bottom to get your match
to 50 ohms. its hard to beat as far as verticals go..
and for a good gain horizontal antenna:
a double zepp - a dipole with both sides 5/8-wave - a total of 10/8 wave
( one and a quarter wave )
- but its fun to experiment with co-phased antennas -
I say - get a MFJ 259 and have fun playing.
I like quads and quagis.
but for vhf and uhf: the best improvement is height. - get that antenna up
high.


"Chuck W." wrote in message
ups.com...
Won't the vertical collinear still win over the dipole because of gain,
on the order of 3-6 dbd?

Now somewhere I've seen a center-fed horizontal antenna. something like
a double Zepp, but in addition to feeding the two halfwaves on each
side, there is additional halfwave sections added to each end via 1/4
wave phasing harnesses, or maybe I'm just imagining something from an
old antenna handbook.


-Chuck