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Re: LF: Re: RE: Folded monopole - Food for thought

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Subject: Re: LF: Re: RE: Folded monopole - Food for thought
From: "Alan Melia" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 23:00:40 +0100
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Even better! :-))  Its an age thing Andy !
Alan
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Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: RE: Folded monopole - Food for thought

6dB more, not 3dB
Height squared 

'jnt


On 14 August 2015 at 22:31, Alan Melia <[email protected]> wrote:
The problem with a monopole at LF is that the effective height is only half (approx) the physical height. For an inverted L where the top length is at least twice the height, the effective height is close to the physical height .....so 3dB more ERP. It may not matter so much on 160m (I used a 16foot centre loaded "tank-whip" at one time :-))  )  but where 
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