On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:26:45 -0700, Jack Twilley
wrote:

I am interested in people who have first-hand experience with a
full-length dipole mounted at the full height for any particular
band. A 10M dipole is full-sized if it's the full length and mounted
at the full height. Ditto for 160M.

Richard Describe your needs first, and then ask what would be
Richard reasonable.

I hope the clarification above is enough -- if not, please let me
know.

Hi Jack,

This is still inspecific. "Full height" is actually meaningless.
Let's look at a 40M dipole antenna and choose a modest 20° launch
angle to compare against.
5M over real ground:
-2dBi
10M over real ground:
1.29dBi
15M over real ground:
3.75dBi
20M over real ground:
6.27dBi
25M over real ground:
8.08dBi
30M over real ground:
7.67dBi
35M over real ground:
7.1dBi
40M over real ground:
7.52dBi

Well, let's see - best gain is NOT at any cardinal point such as
quarter wave, half wave, three quarter, nor full wave above ground ANY
of which "could" be interpreted as "full height."

This exercise is easily within the limited feature set of the free
distribution of EZNEC.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC