Saturday afternoon I had a chance to compare the 20 meter attic dipole to the attic vertical (High Sierra Sidekick) using WSPR. I tried 40 but there was lots of CW action and some local noise that really did not allow me to do a good comparison so here are the 20 meter results. The power output was 4 watts.
Yes I too was surprised at the results but as the day went on the vertical did make it into Europe. With the vertical I know can get up to 80 meters. It may not out preform the dipoles but I have full coverage of the bands now. I do remember reading how attic antennas were not all that great but I have the results to prove that wrong. I will look into the antenna more and see how it can be improved
It does seem the vertical is not the antenna for the my attic installations for sure. Great I can use this program to do the comparison it saves me lots of operating time used for tests.
6 comments:
Hi Mike, that's a big difference. Does the vertical radiated enough? Have a nice Sunday. 73 Paul
Hi Mike, I'm surprised the vertical is worse then the dipole. Did you expect that? 73, Bas
Wow. Quite a difference. :(
Yes I too was surprised at the results but as the day went on the vertical did make it into Europe. With the vertical I know can get up to 80 meters. It may not out preform the dipoles but I have full coverage of the bands now. I do remember reading how attic antennas were not all that great but I have the results to prove that wrong. I will look into the antenna more and see how it can be improved
I didn't expect there to be such a difference....good test...
It does seem the vertical is not the antenna for the my attic installations for sure. Great I can use this program to do the comparison it saves me lots of operating time used for tests.
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