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Old July 11th 06, 03:22 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Tom Donaly Tom Donaly is offline
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Default Quarterwave vertical with radials

Cecil Moore wrote:

Tom Donaly wrote:

wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:

It's pretty easy to understand. Any two radials,
180 degrees apart and high enough, should theoretically
cancel each other's radiation in the far field.


Not true.



How much not true?



-45 DB, i.e. negligibly not true. :-)


That's what I thought. Sometimes, orders of magnitude are
important. Otherwise, people would be worrying about the fact that
they're closer to the center of the Earth in the middle of the
bottom of a flat bottomed hole than they are at the edges.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH