[Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain"

[Phil Kane]

On 9/13/2019 6:56 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> There was a small group of hams who either tried, or succeeded, in
> getting permission to put one of the remaining Delano Sterba's on 160
> [and maybe 80].  I'm not sure if they were successful,

As I remember it, it was the Sacramento Ham Club that got permission to
use the antenna at VOA Dixon for a Field Day shortly after the VOA
decommissioned the site.  After they hooked everything up, they could
not hear anything with it because of the high gain antenna picking up
the signals from NPG - the Navy's transmitting site - two miles down the
street.  Someone forgot that  there's a reason that receiving sites are
located far, far away from such high-power transmitting sites.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon