I agree. I never said, believed or thought an NVIS antenna HAD to be low, I just said it COULD be low.
In fact I was banking on the fact that making it low would make distant signals weaker. ;-) 73, Dave - N5DCH > On Dec 18, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > > On 12/18/2021 2:31 PM, David Herring wrote: >> Putting a dipole at about 10 feet (plus or minus, I don’t recall the exact >> height) accomplished everything I wanted. I worked, on a daily basis, hams >> at all points along the length of the State of Hawaii, I experienced reduced >> band noise, and I did not have to contend with stations outside of this >> area. Problems solved. I don’t think any of this contradicts science. > > Believing that the antenna MUST be low for NVIS DOES contradict science. As > my extensive study, which has been peer reviewed, shows, all that having an > antenna very low does is increase loss, making your signal weaker, and make > distant signals weaker in your receiver. > > 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 david.n5...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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
