Buck wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:00:14 -0700, "Alfred Lorona"
wrote:


Is there a site that explores/explains the latest theories on one way
propagation? The ARRL antenna book is not much help on the subject.

tnx, AL



One way Propagation: The cause of one-way propagation is a station who
uses power to overcome antenna losses. the station can be heard but
cannot hear.

perhaps on VHF and higher where receiver noise dominates. On lower
frequencies, where atmospheric noise dominates, one could tolerate quite
a bit of loss in the antenna/feedline and still "hear" exactly the same,
since the SNR at the antenna dominates the overall situation.

A nice practical example, in use in many HF commercial, government, and
utility type stations, would be the use of an antenna that has been
broadbanded by use of lossy elements (e.g. the terminated folded dipole
sorts of things). You might take a 6-8 dB hit in the antenna loss, which
you make up by jacking up the Tx power by 6-8 dB, but you also don't
have to worry about tuners, etc. This would be particularly useful if
you were doing ALE or frequency hopping.