“What is the optimal HF antenna height?”
When it comes to selecting your HF antenna height, the conventional wisdom is “higher is better”. However, is that always the case? No, it is not. The “optimal” height depends on your local terrain and the bands you want to operate on. Fortunately, publicly available terrain and propagation data enables hams to perform a QTH-specific analysis and make informed decisions about antenna height when planning their antenna system. Bryan will introduce us to the theory, walk us through the analysis process, and share some actual analysis results for some local hams’ QTHs. One of the QTHs that Bryan will analyze is that of your program chair. Come see just how badly Jim has screwed up.
Oh, who is Bryan? Well, apart from not knowing how to spell the name when it is a first name ( :-) ), he is a really smart guy. Besides being an extremely active ham (W3CP - check out his QRZ.com page), he is a senior field applications engineer for Broadcom. He has a BSEE from Drexel University and an MSEE from Georgia Tech. You may remember him from the antenna zoning problems he successfully overcame last summer. He is still planning that dream antenna that he won the right to put up, and I guess that got him interested again in optimum height issues.
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The meeting is Monday November 10 at the IHOP, 920 Market Place Boulevard, CUMMING, GA 30041-7920, beginning at 7:00. If you can make it, come eat with us at 6:00.
Everyone is invited. You do not have to be a member of the Sawnee Amateur Radio Association, and you don’t have to be a ham radio operator - interest is enough. And we can help you get started.
