[Lowfer] vertical-ness

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:18:40 -0500

It is the same except your vertical is transmitting upward, downward and
slightly cross polarized in the other two directions. It still works.
Perfectly vertical would make the first hop out at or nearly the same
distance from the antenna if the ionosphere had the same reflective
qualities in all directions, which in reality it won't. By tilting your
vertical top away from say Iowa slightly, you could possibly make your first
hop in that state to let a person hear your signal. A good example of this
is a low horizontal dipole on 75 meters which essentially radiates straight
up which makes lots of close in hops to have a strong signal from your
location outward to a few hundred miles. So if you went with a quarter wave
vertical instead of the half wave vertical, you would have a higher angle of
radiation to keep the 'skip zone' shorter to let the states closer to you
hear your signal but then it would take more hops to get to the east coast
lessening your chance to have as strong a signal as you have with your half
wave vertical.

Mike>WE0H

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Eric Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:57 PM
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Subject: RE: [Lowfer] vertical-ness

Thanks, Mike.  I've read about elevation with regard to beams but was
unsure how that worked with verticals.

Thank you!

Eric, KD5UWL