DOH! Let me rephrase that... Lots of comments on the omnidirectional pattern which I suggested might not work well.
Any comments on having the elements on one side of the tower right on the leg? Joe M. MCH wrote: > Lots of comments on the unidirectional pattern which I suggested might > not work well. > > Any comments on having the elements on one side of the tower right on > the leg? > > Joe M. > > n...@no6b.com wrote: >> At 8/9/2009 05:47, you wrote: >> >> >>> As frequency decreases, so does the importance of keeping the dipoles >>> exactly above one another. This is why you can get away with mounting the >>> bays of a LB array around a smaller tower (like Rohn 25) and still have >>> very good omni-directional performance. Positioning the bays around a >>> central supporting mast of a UHF array creates considerable pattern >>> distortion and gain is lost. >> I once modeled this arrangement in NEC-Win: the resulting pattern looked >> like a warped pancake. On-horizon gain was all over the place. >> >> Bob NO6B >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
