[Antennas] Re: vertical angles...

W8OKN w8okn at charter.net
Fri Sep 8 15:13:36 EDT 2006


Exactly.   True for a vertical.

Different for a horizontal antenna.  The height does make a much bigger difference for a horizontal dipole.  The higher the antenna, then more likely a lower angle.

>From the desk of W8OKN

Oidamen de hoti tois agapwasin ton theon panta sunergei eis agathon, tois kata prothesin kleetois ousin.

---- Roy Koeppe <royanjoy at ncn.net> wrote: 

=============
"Yes, twelve feet, but remember that the base is twenty feet above
ground."

But RF ground reference is the radial system. The launch angle is from
that ground, not earth.

73,     K6XK



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