For what it's worth, in general, a side mounted antenna will have as
many lobes in its pattern as the number of 1/4 wavelengths it is from the
tower. An antenna 1/4 wave length from the tower would have one major fat
lobe away from the tower. An antenna 1/2 wavelength from the tower will have
two lobes, skewed somewhat by the tower, generally perpendicular to the line
from the antenna to the tower. 3/4 wavelength will give you a distorted
cloverleaf pattern.
There is no way, however, to put a major lobe behind the tower with a
single antenna. Often this can be an advantage in shielding your system from
another co-channel repeater users.
Perhaps you can use these principles to locate your antenna.
Al, K9SI
> Joel Mele wrote:
>
> Has anyone solved the problem of omni directional pattern distortion
> when side mounting a DB-224 on a tower?
>
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