[Elecraft] Sloping Terrain vs Feedline Losses

[David Gilbert]

No, I didn't mean that.

If sloping ground improves radiation pattern, it's going to be worth 
more than 1 db.  Pattern changes of any sort typically have significant 
effect, whereas one db is almost trivial (notwithstanding my own 
experiments on that on my website).  I'm not saying that sloping ground 
actually has a significant effect ... only that if it has any effect at 
all it is likely to be greater than 1 db.

Dave   AB7E



On 7/13/2016 10:06 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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