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Marconi....Thanks for doing the charts!! You guys are the reason for the success of this forum!!
After doing some study on these plots it appears to me the best pattern is the 1/4 wave with radials at 9 ft. with a take off angle of 17 degrees. The 1\4wave at 18 feet has a lower take off but the bulk of the pattern is radiated a too high an angle....not really useable......do you agree??
the antenna design is similar to the old Starduster type antennas.....I think they are 1/4 wave with angle drop radials.
the 1\2 wave design at 18 feet has 10 degree TOA but I do not have a 1\2 wave antenna to haul down to camp. the 1\4 waves are easy and should work as well as my mobile wilson 1000.

<blockquote data-quote="ghutch" data-source="post: 365063" data-attributes="member: 15022">Marconi....Thanks for doing the charts!! You guys are the reason for the success of this forum!! After doing some study on these plots it appears to me the best pattern is the 1/4 wave with radials at 9 ft. with a take off angle of 17 degrees. The 1\4wave at 18 feet has a lower take off but the bulk of the pattern is radiated a too high an angle....not really useable......do you agree?? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused1:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused1:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused1:" />the antenna design is similar to the old Starduster type antennas.....I think they are 1/4 wave with angle drop radials.the 1\2 wave design at 18 feet has 10 degree TOA but I do not have a 1\2 wave antenna to haul down to camp. the 1\4 waves are easy and should work as well as my mobile wilson 1000.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ghutch, post: 365063, member: 15022"] Marconi....Thanks for doing the charts!! You guys are the reason for the success of this forum!! After doing some study on these plots it appears to me the best pattern is the 1/4 wave with radials at 9 ft. with a take off angle of 17 degrees. The 1\4wave at 18 feet has a lower take off but the bulk of the pattern is radiated a too high an angle....not really useable......do you agree?? :confused1: the antenna design is similar to the old Starduster type antennas.....I think they are 1/4 wave with angle drop radials. the 1\2 wave design at 18 feet has 10 degree TOA but I do not have a 1\2 wave antenna to haul down to camp. the 1\4 waves are easy and should work as well as my mobile wilson 1000. [/QUOTE]

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