you posted:
"I'm curious why you think something like what is written in this document relevant to anything that I have said. Its like you are using a distraction to claim that I am wrong about something."
"over reporting the gain of ground mounted antennas to, actually, close to 6 dB."
this is the finding and conclusion of the report:
abstract:
"the erroneous definition (postulated by Wolf, 1966) is that the effective area of the vertical receiving monopole is twice as large as that of a corresponding dipole in free space. this report shows that the effective area of a monopole is one half that of the corresponding dipole."
"thus, the gain of a quarter-wave monopole should have twice the gain of a corresponding half-wave dipole, or 5.16 dB.." (page 8) i consider this figure to be an indication of directivity instead of gain since the radiation efficiencies for the AUT have not been evaluated to make that calculation possible.
"MININEC Professional and Kraus (1950) agree on the gain of the transmitting antenna. As indicated in table 2, the transmission results of equation (18) and MININEC Professional do not agree. However, the transmission prediction of equation (18) is approximately 6 dB or four times greater than the calculation of MININEC Professional." (page 8)
additional information:
http://www.arrl.org/forum/topics/view/2112
