[hackpgh-ham] Re: Stealth trapped antenna...

  • From: Matt Stultz <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-ham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:28:38 -0400

So that's the same response from two of us.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Ed Paradis <legomaniac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Vertical HF antennas are typically seen as "good DX" antennas because
> of their low take off angle.
>
> The SteppIR in the back was a vertical antenna.
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Doug Philips <douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Curious thing is that at Airglow, it seemed that Dave was running a
> > horizontal antenna. I don't know what the other folks were using.
> > Thought I had remembered that UHF/VHF was mostly vertical and the HF
> bands
> > mostly horizontal. Hence this vertical HF antenna seems iffy...
>
>

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