On Jan 11, 12:50*pm, Art Unwin wrote:

I could do that but you will only accept what you yourself can
prove by your own means.

No, I accept the work of Kraus, Terman, Balanis etc and the
experimental work of George Brown et al as they have written and
proven it.

The undocumented statements of Art Unwin I do not.

But for your edification, Art, below is a link to what NEC shows for a
full-wave, base-fed vertical monopole over a perfect ground plane.

Note that it has zero gain in the horizontal plane, and about 6.7 dBi
gain at an elevation angle of 37 degrees. So yes, tilting the
radiator would increase gain in the horizontal plane, by varying
amounts depending on azimuth (two azimuths would still be zero)..

Is this the basis for your claim? If so, why would anyone install
such a thing, as more than that peak gain in the horizontal plane is
supplied by a cheaper, shorter VERTICAL monopole of about 0.6
wavelengths.

If this model is not what you have in mind then please completely
define your radiator (including how it is fed and its relation to the
ground plane), and your meaning of "best results" due to tilting it.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h8...alMonopole.gif

RF