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Old January 12th 07, 07:36 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Clark Richard Clark is offline
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Default Better for DX: Vertical or dipole?

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:33:10 -0500, Rick
wrote:

What's your advice?


Hi Rick,

Choose your poison.

A 30 foot high 160M dipole is a notable ground hugging air cooled
resistor. A GAP is probably worse.

A combination of the two might be in order (which does NOT mean buy a
GAP to do this). Erect a 30 foot vertical and top load it with what
would have been the dipole.

I will leave to others what could be done in higher bands (with one
word of advice, GAPs don't usually perform very well on their lowest
band(s), but have been to be reported as good verticals otherwise).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC