[Antennas] Studies of propagation and signal strength of aviation antennas

[rbethman]

  Henry,

You may want to start here:

<http://www.ab9il.net/aviation/hf1.html

This is by a former pilot for ATA.  They flew 757s and 737s cross-Atlantic.

Bob - N0DGN

On 6/26/2010 12:57 PM, Henry Mei'l's wrote:
> Rule of thumb says the higher the better - so I'd like to see HF radio communication studies/statistics for airborne-to-ground.
> Also, were trailed wire antennas (much) better tha fuelsage mounted ones?
>
> No doubt the military and commercial airlines did this kind of study back when HF was common in aircraft communications.
>
> I've worked very few airborne stations, and didn't listen very often to aviation HF channels, so I can't judge.
>
> vy 73, Henry OZ1UF-OU5T  Cph.