Saturday, April 16, 2011

Attic dipole vs attic vertical using WSPR

20 meters with dipole
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.
20 meters with vertical

6 comments:

Paul Stam PAØK said...

Hi Mike, that's a big difference. Does the vertical radiated enough? Have a nice Sunday. 73 Paul

PE4BAS, Bas said...

Hi Mike, I'm surprised the vertical is worse then the dipole. Did you expect that? 73, Bas

Unknown said...

Wow. Quite a difference. :(

VE9KK said...

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

MW0MJB said...

I didn't expect there to be such a difference....good test...

VE9KK said...

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.