[Elecraft] AX1 Loaded Whip Antenna - Elevation and

[Brian Hunt]

I think you'll find that for a short vertical radiator and a single counterpoise wire the maximum radiation is in the direction of the wire. EZNEC confirms this and I've tested it with a friend the length of California on 40 m where with the counterpoise pointed away from him I could barely copy him, flipping the wire 180° brought his signal up significantly. He saw the same thing on his end. 

73,
Brian, K0DTJ

> On Aug 26, 2019, at 18:26, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:
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> I think users of the AX1 would be better off thinking of IT as the counterpoise, and making the most out of what they normally consider to be the counterpoise wire.
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