Dave, N3HE writes:

On the flags and pennants, I've read the stuff on various websites. The
stumbling-block for me is that nobody around here (Cincinnati) has any
experience, good or bad, or they ain't talkin', and I gather that these
devices are really site-sensitive wrt soil conductivity.


I have not built them, just followed discussions, mostly on TopBand reflector.
K6SE and other exchanged lot of information.
The soil conductivity impact would be as with verticals (it is in a sense
phased verticals), good soil will enhance low angle, stretch the lobe down to
horizon. Important thing is to use baluns on the coax to maintain max clean
pattern to eliminate effect of feedline for good rejection.
Check TopBand reflector archives, I you have not seen them.

Yuri