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There's no single answer because, as Cecil said, the response changes
markedly with frequency. Maximum radiation will be broadside at frequencies where it is a half- wave, and it will progressively develop multiple lobes and nulls as the frequency is increased. The common-mode current on the "vertical radiator" tends to fill in some of those nulls, but its contribution is also very frequency- dependent. Here's an example of the difference that the "vertical radiator" makes to a 132ft OCF dipole on 20m - one of the bands where it has most effect. Red trace is the azimuth response at 10 degrees elevation without the vertical radiator; the blue trace is with it: http://www.karinya.net/g3txq/temp/ocf_low_angle.png 73, Steve G3TXQ |
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