Re: LF: Puckeridge Decca station - Big & small antennas

["Rik Strobbe" <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>]

On 17/05/00 G3KEV wrote:
> To my knowledge no one in the past has disputed that a large and small
> vertical would have the same radiation PATTERN. What has been said is
> that the intensity of the signal radiated from a large vertical is
> greater than a short one. On receive the signal voltage collected by a
> large vertical is greater than the small vertical.
On 17/01/00 G3KEV wrote :
> There is a big difference in the radiation pattern and angle of take off
> between a high vertical antenna and a very low antenna given the same rf
> power to the antenna. 1 Watt erp from a dummy load or low horizontal wire
> is hardly the same as 1 Watt erp from a vertical antenna at 120 ft.
Did I miss(understand) something ?

73, Rik  ON7YD