[Elecraft] Effects of Sloping Terrain

[Dauer, Edward]

I can’t contribute to this from my own knowledge; but if it helps there are two sections of ON4UN’s “Low-Band DXing” that might be of interest.   In Chapter 5 (with consulting author, Lew Gordon K4VX) at pages 5-5 and 5-6 appears to illustrate significant effects from sloping terrain; and at page 9-5 (with consulting author Uli Weiss DJ2YA) says directly, “Fig 9.6 shows that a terrain that slopes downhill in the direction of the target is as helpful for vertical antennas as it is for horizontally polarized antennas.”

I would also use this opportunity to thank more than a dozen people who replied off-line to my original post, in which I asked for advice on weighing the disadvantages of longer feedline runs against the gains from sloping terrain.  All of it was helpful and I got a much-needed education.  Many thanks.

Ted, KN1CBR


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> On 7/13/2016 10:38 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
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>> No, I didn't mean that.
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>> 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
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