On 8/28/2020 4:38 PM, Rick Bates, NK7I wrote:
For the record, I agree but as I made no series of qualifying tests;
I've done both building and modeling. When I first moved to W6 in 2006,
I had a 160M dipole up about 110 ft redwoods AND a Tee vertical about 80
ft vertical with enough top to resonate it, and about 50 radials on the
ground, varying length. I worked a lot of contests over several years,
always A/B comparisons. The vertical almost always won, often by a lot.
With legal limit, I could reliably work good stations 800 miles or so
two hours before sunset on the vertical, not even a "QRZ?" on the
dipole. And that dipole was more than twice as high as most hams could
rig. When I lost the horizontal dipole in a storm I didn't consider
repairing and re-rigging it.
Modeling predicts the vertical outperforms at most vertical angles.
73, Jim K9YC
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