Re: NEC-LIST: CFA and the Hately advertisement

Hi all.

Jos is of course quite right, but I guess that I am being very tongue
in cheek with "the higher the better.".

Strictly speaking though, his point is taken. It would also appear
that there are many of us who still remain very sceptical of the
performance claims for the CFA.

If memory serves me right, some operators at HF prefer to use a
so-called 190 degree mast (little over 0.5 lambda), in order to reduce
the skywave component and to increase the ground range before one gets
interference between sky- and groundwave at night. I do recall an
article where the authors described a means of using toploading with
stay wires (insulated) to get comparable results to the 190 degree
tower with a 90 degree (lambda over 4) tower. The details are lost in
my filing cabinets somewhere.

Have a great day, all of you.

Duncan.

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