--- Steve Bosshard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once upon a time I asked Lloyd Alcorn up at Wacom
> that question.
>
> Best I recall 60 ft is the maximum distance on a
> tower that you can
> seperate antennas.
>
> Further seperation will not yield additional
> isolation because of the
> coupling within the tower itself.
>
> Number wise memory tells me that the isolation at
> 146 Mhz and 60 ft. was
> around 60 db - just enough maybe with a clean tube
> transmitter and very
> selective receiver to get by, and maybe not.
> Horizontal seperation was
> not nearly as effective.
>
> Seems like 85 db of isolation was the magic number
> at 600 kc.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
>
Isolation wise, vertical is much superior to
horizontal. For the example we're working on, 100 ft
horizontal would be the same as about 14 ft vertical.
To me, it would be easier to get 14 ft vertical, than
100 ft horizontal.
Joe
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