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January 22nd 06, 06:18 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:

I'm putting a vertical back up for transmitting and will
probably receive on my horizontal dipole.

Why? Doesn't make sense. If the vertical is best for
transmit, it should be the best for receive 98% of the time.

That's certainly not true at my QTH. The vertical has two
extra S-units of noise on receive compared to my dipole.
I'm assuming the two extra S-units of noise on receive
won't affect my transmitted signal. When I had my 40m
vertical up, I never heard any signal that was better
received on the vertical. +12 dB of noise is virtually
impossible to overcome in actual practice.

But almost all my GP's
had the radials attached to the mounting plate, which in
turn was mounted to the mast.

Conductive mast?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp