On Mar 11, 10:50 am, Cecil Moore wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:
By the way John, read the book and determine why he points to a pitch
angle for best results
Thus pitch angle is not at right angles so perhaps you can explain
that.

Art, don't know if you have Balanis or not, but on page 134
of "Antenna Theory", 2nd edition, his example of a radiation
vector from an infinitesimal dipole is not perpendicular to
the dipole direction.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

I haven't got that book but it doesn,t matter. The group will chose to
believe the
books that put it at parallel to the radiator axis. It is easier to
belittle the truth rather than put a radiator at say 12 degrees
to the earth surface and compute for max horizontal radiation. Repeat
but make the radiator parallel.
If the program agrees with you then buy it for future proof. I said
this before Cecil
but this group were frightened to explore for themselves and chose to
belittle instead.
Many were educated by remembering,few checked things out for
themselves.
Same goes for small antennas, they confuse small antennas with
electrically small antennas
big difference. Academia referrs to small electrical antennas when
discussing the subject,
My antenna is NOT electrically small. Period.
Regards
Art