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January 22nd 06, 11:58 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
If you listened to long haul dx
paths, and the vertical never beat the dipole, you didn't have
a very good vertical.

The vertical was 2 S-units noiser than the dipole. There's no
evidence that, with the same height limits, a monopole vertical
could ever beat a dipole's broadside performance by 12 dB at
any angle.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp