[Elecraft] “ELECRAFT NVIS field day”

[Julia Tuttle]

Wait, why would people think verticals are good for NVIS? Isn't a
vertical's radiation pattern pretty much "sideways but not up", and NVIS'
desired radiation pattern "up but not sideways"?

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, 12:54 Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> On 12/17/2021 6:12 AM, Greg Herman wrote:
> > What if there was the annual event called the The Elecraft
> > NVIS field day?
>
> There is a major myth regarding NVIS that antennas must be low. This is
> totally false. The facts are that vertical antennas are terrible for
> NVIS, and that horizontal antennas work better up to nearly one-half
> wavelength above ground. This study ran in National Contest Journal
> several years ago.
>
> http://k9yc.com/AntennaPlanning.pdf
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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