On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:23:16 GMT, Tom Horne
wrote:

I want to know what does work from real world users.

Tom,

Used to provide checkpoint communications for the Baja offroad races.
Best antennas we found for consistent regional communications were low
horizontal dipoles fed with balanced line. You could tune them on any
band and the radiation pattern was UP. Google NVIS antennas, or start
he

http://www.qsl.net/wb5ude/nvis/

S.T.W.