[Antennas] Elevated Vertical-sloping radials

[wb8owx at fuse.net]

Remember that SWR and Antenna effiecency and not related really...in fact, if you have a 1:1 SWR then you might expect poor radition effiecency.  And certainly if you get the vertical upwards of a 1/2 wave or so up, you start generating vertical lobes and raising the angle of the horizontal lobes, so don't put it up too high....73, Tim K8WBL
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> From: W3HKK at aol.com
> Date: 2005/03/22 Tue PM 04:04:11 EST
> To: rfjones at ris.net,  antennas at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Antennas] Elevated Vertical-sloping radials
> 
> a buddy erected his Cushcraft triband GP at 25 ft with 4  radials sloping at 
> 45 degrees and cut for the lowest band ( 20M) 
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> His swr was terrific.....1.0to1  ( better than with  horizontal radials which 
> would give a higher swr due to lower radiation  resistance,  BUT his 
> complaint was  that his main lobe was much  higher.....and the antenna did quite well 
> out at around 1500 miles but not as  well for low angle contacts.
>  
> Something gained=something  lost.
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