[Elecraft] Sloping Terrain vs Feedline Losses

[Wes Stewart]

I hope you meant much less than 1 dB.

On 7/13/2016 1:49 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> Agree on the coax losses, but totally disagree on both of your other comments:
>
> 1.  Elevated radials will ONLY help reduce near field ground losses ... they 
> will do nothing to help radiation pattern.  The effects of ground conductivity 
> determine far field pattern (given a particular profile) no matter what kind 
> of radials he uses.
>
> 2.  If there is any gain benefit from the terrain profile at all, it will be 
> much more than 1 db.
>
> Dave   AB7E
>