On 2012-09-20, at 5:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > I noticed that some of the DXpeditions are using vertical diipoles next to > the sea on at least some of the higher bands ( I am guessing 20 and up). I > stuffed the data into EZNEC 5.0 and came up with some suprising results, hope > I did it correctly I am not an antenna guru . Now as Tom has just indicated > modeling is great but its only modeling it doesnt really tell what happens in > the real world/ground conditions etc. > > Does anyone have any real world experience with these dipoles? Do they work > in non beach environments such as near the mountians? Comments welcome... and > I am willing to take the comments off list if it suits you. > > If this is not a fools folley I will put together what I find suprising and > put it on my web site for everyone to access but I dont to take the time to > document it if its a waste of time.
Hi Jim, Here's a link in the matter of the vertical yagi array, FYI: http://www.eham.net/articles/21116 No doubt to-day's generation of Hams blessed with computers & EZNEC will be readily able to punch all manner of holes into the notion---but to a 30 year old struggling with two mortgages and new marriage, the idea opened a whole new vista onto HF DX'ing for me... ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
