In the words of the great Basil Fawlty "you'll like this one"!

It appears to be believed, by one or two who frequent this NG, that a tilted
monopole provides more gain and somehow 'better' EM radiation than a
vertical one. However, we've seen that tilting a vertical monopole distorts
its radiation pattern so it is no longer truly omni-directional in the
horizontal plane. Then why not create an array of such tilted monopoles,
all tilted in different directions, to restore the omni-directional pattern.

The result is a discone antenna, or a discage like the one illustrated at
http://gvarc.us/GVARCFrames/Titan/Di...ch4life002.jpg. I wonder what
the 'new-age theorists' would make of this. Does it require the Coriolis
effect to analyse it, or is the old-fashioned version provided by
Schellkunoff & Friis(#) still adequate?

Chris


# Schellkunoff, S.A., and Friis, H.T. Antennas, theory and practice. John
Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1952. pp 104 to 106.



.... and if that isn't enough, how about the Racal Antennas 'Difan'
http://www.racalantennas.com/product...45-30mhz.aspx?