Return to KLUBNL.PL main page

rsgb_lf_group
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: LF: Re. Decca Masts

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LF: Re. Decca Masts
From: "Mike Dennison" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:41:44 +0100
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
Reply-to: [email protected]
Sender: <[email protected]>
G3AQC wrote:
<< The performance of the Decca Ant. is quite interesting, the "gain"or at
least the advantage over the normal amateur installation appears to be at
least 20db.... This is tremendous and I dont see how it can be attributed
to the height alone, conventional wisdom says that a short vertical has
the same radiation pattern as a full sise one,and even 300 feet is far
short of full sise. So where do we look  for the explanation? >>


Don't forget that the transmission was a full 1W ERP (from only 10W in!). Very few amateur stations are able to run that amount of power even with hundreds of watts input.


Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>