Richard Clark wrote:

Hi Tom,

And 30 inches (more than 6 wavelengths long?) would seem to have long
met diminishing returns. Given the prospects of it bobbing on the
ocean, with a successively dipping and rising critical elevation gain
- well that sounds like no kind of solution to a problem.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

And before anyone mentions the downtilt or polarization, here's a
horizontally polarized one with no downtilt. Unfortunately no pattern
shown for this one, though.

http://www.firstmilewireless.com/prod_ant2oh13.html

tom
K0TAR