[Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain"

[EricJ]

Maybe the termination was changed in later years. I was permanently 
assigned to K2USA from '63-'65 (not bad duty for a ham). We ran 
thousands of phone patches to/from SE Asia on that rhombic and the 20m 
monobander @ 90 feet. I used to break into QSOs between two local VKs 
chatting via ground wave with that antenna. I was the only signal they 
could hear.

You probably knew Mike Reason. When I was there, he was a local kid who 
used to hang out at the MARS station. Great guy, now SK.

Eric KE6US

ex-K1DCK, WA6YCF, WB2PVW

On 9/13/2019 3:24 PM, Mike Markowski wrote:
> Can you expand on this, Ken, or if easier, a reference?  I'm curious 
> what tradeoffs are made.  I used a rhombic at Ft. Monmouth, NJ before 
> the Army base was closed in 2011, and used to boom into Europe and 
> Russia.  It was amazing.  I also got copies of WWII manuals on rhombic 
> construction while there.  You know, just in case I became wealthy 
> with tens of acres of land.  :-)
>
> 73,
> Mike ab3ap
>
> On 9/13/19 5:57 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
>> Rhombic antennas derive their well-known gain by "throwing away" some of
>> the design's gain.  Ditto for the infamous "inverted vee". Use is 
>> made of
>> the lobes from the four wires while disregarding others.
>>
>> 73 !
>>
>> Ken Kopp - K0PP
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