[Elecraft] Anyone try 60 meters yet?

[Thomas Beaudry]

Sorry but the regulation says if you use an antenna other than a 1/2 
wave dipole, you must maintain the gain of the antenna in your station 
records.

Here is the link to the ARRL web page.  Scroll down until you see the 
sidebar with the actual text of the regulation.

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/faq.html#sixty

> Never fear, an only 38 foot doublet is less than a half wave, and thus 
> less
> than 0 dB gain on 5 MHz band.
>
> Only positive gain antennas must be computed; by definition a less 
> than half
> wave antenna is a negative "gain".  A note in the log is not a bad 
> idea in
> any case for historical perspective.

-- 
Thomas M. Beaudry
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