[BC] More tower sites from above...

[Robert Meuser]

Yes and no. A high angle lobe starts to develop after 180 degrees but does not become 
significant until about 200 degrees where it is -15 db at 63 degrees as opposed to -8 db 
at 57 degrees when 225 degrees is reached. A 194 degree stick has high angle lobes -20 db 
at 65 degrees.

R


On 18 May 2005 at 11:59, DANA PUOPOLO wrote:

> I've always believed that non-sectionalized radiators over 180 degrees were to
> be avoided due to the high angle skywave lobes they generate.
> Am I wrong here?
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> -D
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> >WOAI's current radiator is 194 degrees, about average for a ND-U Class A, and
> it also performs about average for such a radiator, at 400 mV/m/kW at 1 km
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