"AP" wrote in :

Thanks a lot guys for your info.
Very interesting.
Tks again
AP


3 dB sounds like a lot....twice the power.....but, alas, look on any
calibrated receiver's S-meter. Look at how LITTLE 3 dB is above the S-9
mark on it. The calibrations are 10 dB apart.

In reality, on the air, 3 dB is undiscernable.

Also, in reality, ON A BOAT...IN THE WAVES, the flat pattern generated by a
super-high-gain antenna squishing the donut of a vertical dipole out flat,
all that power will end up being pointed at the sky on one side of the
wave....and at Davy Jones' Locker on the other side of the wave....making
this whole discussion MOOT!.....in reality.....(c;

Larry W4CSC