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| Distance two antennas should be apart | WV0l | on 13/5/14 |
| Something that is still stuck in my memory from my CB days is to "avoid increments, or multiples of a desired resonant wavelength" when spacing antennas. And I've been pretty-much living by that formula since. Preferably, and if space allows, (which it seldom does), the interaction greatly diminishes over one half wavelength separation. I've used a 40M dipole that acted more like a 2element beam due to it's proximity to an MFJ G5RV... The thing talked into Texas just peachy -- but Georgia was in a "null". If you run a resonant ground counterpoise wire slightly to the downward side of a dipole a quarter-wavelength up, you can make a very nice NVIS out of it, with a mean directional "lobe"... I found that out the hard way too. And I kept it because It worked great! |
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