[Antennas] New Gain Definition dB-MEG was Unity Gain Question

[Terry Conboy]

At 06:34 PM 2004-06-23, Dan Richardson wrote:
>In the specs they reference the antenna gain in dB-MEG. Well, that's a new 
>one on me so a little more digging turned up this:
>
>http://www.bizrad.com/newgain.htm
>
>In this tome they compare dB-MEG to a 3 dB "curly-q" antenna. [What ever 
>that is!]
>
>The only curly-q thing I know is a pig's tail. So I guess one could say 
>that their antenna has the same gain of a pig's tail [I really wanted to 
>say a pig's ass, but restrained myself].

The "3 dB curly-q" antenna is the typical vehicular cellular antenna with 
the open phasing coil roughly in the center.  It approximates a two element 
colinear vertical antenna.

73, Terry