Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
Mark Keith wrote:
Yep, I guess you could call me biased...I'd even take this farther and
speculate that the dipole even at a half wave "65 ft on 40m" would
have trouble beating the elevated vertical I had on long paths.

But, Mark, you are neglecting physical efficiency. Divide the performance
by the amount of metal required for each antenna and see what you get. :-)
My dipole uses 1/2WL of wire. Your vertical uses how many wavelengths of
wire?

Good grief.....What an argument you have here, Cecil....Like the
amount of wire used is pertinent to performance. But if you must know,
my GP used 5 lengths of 1/4 wave material. The radiator being fully
self supporting aluminum. The other four 1/4 wave lengths were of that
high $$$$ stuff called wire. Really broke me that antenna did... MK