BBi explains antennas. (put on your high boots)

[Van Lifeson]

I just put a mirror facing downward at the top hat of my super Penetrator so the signal reflects downward!

 

[Slowmover]

I just put a mirror facing downward at the top hat of my super Penetrator so the signal reflects downward!

You’re getting it! That lifetime feeling of three passes thru fifth grade is paying off!!

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[secret squirrel]

You need distance and matched radiators to reflect the signal. That's why I hook my RG8 up to railroad tracks by the house, It works like a tuning fork, then used a tuner to adjust for frequency. I get the best results East and West because that's the way the tracks run. "Secret Squirrel keying up on the Baltimore and Ohio. 5 watts swinging cross country. "

 

[barefootindian]

Yet another gut bustin roll around laughing science/physics lesson. Lotsa great ideas to try out too.

 

[Rwb]

should i cut my antenna pole off just below the antenna mount and install a rotating hinge i can control with a rope running through my coax entrance point to go horizintal to vertical? make my ground plains into gp beams?

 

[freecell]

when looking at a sine wave signal we understand that one cycle is equal to the distance from either one crest or trough to the next crest or trough. here's the question. if @ a frequency of 27 mhz this cycle repeats itself 27,000,000 times every second, what is the amount of time required for a single cycle?

if BBI can answer that question then i'll watch his antenna video / "tutorial."