"Mark Keith" wrote:

| Huh? A 1/4 wave vertical is a fairly low angle radiator. The better
| the ground radial system, the better the low angle performance. The
| max radiation of a 1/4 wave ground plane is under 5 degrees when it's
| over a 1/2 wave up and has 4 radials.
| If a 1/4 wave vertical is a higher angle radiator, what do you, or he,
| consider a low angle radiator? MK

A 1/2 wave vertical, or ideally, a 5/8 (.625) wavelength vertical, actually.
I wasn't disputing the fact that a 1/4 wave vertical works very well for DX
purposes, but was pointing out that there is an exception to every rule, and
I found this particular "Exception" quite interesting.

You can find a reference to the "high angle CAN be better for gray line
work" phenomenon in one of the Twin Cities DX Association's newsletters:

http://www.tcdxa.org/

The link appears under "TCDXA Info." Click on the "Gray Line Report."
There are 3 newsletters on that particular page, and it's in there
*somewhere*
or other.

VY 73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous


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