On 5 Dec, 20:33, (Richard Harrison) wrote:
Art wrote:

"Thus modern day computors provide the answer as a full wavelength
radiator that is at an angle to the earth of just under 80 degrees."

In the real world we try to get maximum results with minimum investmennt
in effort and materials. An unbalanced 1/4-wave or a balanced 1/2-wave
seems appropriate.

As far as angles go, polarization is the direction of the electric
field, usually horizontal or vertical for mechanical as well as
electrical purposes.

You can take Kraus to the bank. Check his index for "Mutual Impedance"
of paralleled dipoles or echelon antennas. Better yet, you likely have
experience with trials of cross-polarization of VHF or UHF antennas. You
have seen the havoc cross-polarization causes. Now, is there any angle
between fully aligned and completely misaligned where we discover a
magic peak? Of course not.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

O.K. you WIN Richard. You run so many different routes that
I can't keep up with you. You deny the validity of computor programs
and Roy sulks because none of his programs have the optimiser feature
which is the easiest way of solving the question.
You can place the radiator where ever you want to get the results
that you would like to see.So you don't trust computor programs,
programmers or you just never tried to use them?
You can now get back to argueing with Cecil on coil currents
which will allow some more disconnecting reading from Terman
of yesteryear. There is nothing more to be said regarding
the resultant vector of a radiator's active vectors which is
the basic issue that I was discussing in the first place.
Hopefully you will recover by morning and look on life
in a different manner.
Art