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An Arrow Antenna

Arrow Antennas makes a suite of wonderful antennas (and some other things); the beginning of it was an article written for 73 Amateur Radio describing a sturdy fox-hunting antenna which utilized aluminum arrows for the elements.

I have modelled a similar antenna on a six-foot boom; the pattern (ERP) looks like this:

an ARRL-standard plot is:

The modelling was done using NEC2; the NEC deck is here. The plot was generated from NEC2's output with a perl script; it outputs an input file suitable for gnuplot.