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Homemade VHF/UHF Antennas - Cascade Amateur Radio Society

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Gain<br />

Antenna gain can be specified in a few<br />

different ways, sometimes invoking<br />

confusion. Most often gain is expressed in<br />

decibels with the units denoted as dBi.<br />

However sometimes the gain is compared to<br />

the maximum gain of a lossless half-wave<br />

dipole antenna (1.64-2.2) in which case the<br />

units are written as dBd.<br />

Gain is always a comparison to something<br />

else

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