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 <j...@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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to ju...@juliatuttle.net > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
