"Sum Ting Wong" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:24:46 -0500, "H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H"
wrote:

Logs are Passe'; Use a SteppIR.

Yep... a SteppIR AND one of these...

http://www.teleskopmaste.com/optibeam/ob804020e.htm

I see the gain figures on that beauty and I puzzle over why the dBd and dBi
gain figures are so far apart -- about 7 db. I expect a difference
somewhere in the 2 - 3 dB range. IIRC it's 2.2 dB. What am I missing?

Before I sent this, I did a Google search using some of these terms and
discovered "ground reflection gain," a term I have never seen before, except
in connection with EME with the moon near the horizon. Is this a realizable
gain or damnable inflation of gain numbers?

TKS.