The Standard Feedpoint and Support Fixture, consists of an insulator box mounting flange bracket situated upon an insulator hollow tapered fiber mast at adjustable height. 

The fixture uses a 50 ohm impedance 1:1 balun/unun made from 11 turns of miniature 50 ohm impedance coaxial cable solenoid-wound upon a ferrite stick core. 20 feet of RG-58A coaxial cable connects the Standard Feedpoint Fixture to the Test Transmitter, a Yaesu FT-817, with external 12VDC Gel Battery, with the TX and battery housed in an insulated backpack and placed upon a wooden table adjacent to the support mast. The antenna side of the transmission line balun connects via BNC connectors to interchangeable adaptors for PL-259, SO-239, or 3/8-24 stud terminals to mate with the various Antennas Under Test.

For vertical polarization tests, the Standard Feedpoint Fixture is set to a height of 8 feet unless noted otherwise.

The upper element wire, a #14AWG stranded tinned copper wire 16feet 9inches in length is supported vertically upward from the Standard Feedpoint Fixture by an insulator hollow fiber tapered pole. 

The lower element wire, also #14AWG stranded tinned copper wire 16 feet 9 inches in length, is supported from the Standard Feedpoint Fixture, and this wire slopes down towards the receiver site, ending at a height of 2 feet and supported by nylon cord.  The combination of these two wires forms a dipole-like radiating element with a substantially vertically polarized wavefront in the direction of the test receiver antenna site. 

The lower element wire of the Reference Vertical dipole is maintained throughout all vertical whip testing as the sole "counterpoise" or "ground radial" element for the whip antennas to "work against". All Antennas Under Test utilize the lower element wire as a reference plane or "counterpoise" unless otherwise noted.

The Reference Vertical Element used for the purpose of this event can be considered practically to have substantially no positive gain over a theoretical dipole in free space, and all Antennas Under Test in the shootout measured in the Vertical Polarization are simply referenced in decibels with respect to the Reference Vertical Element, with no calibration made to a theoretical dipole or isotropic radiator in free space. Therefore, the decibel measurements reported in this chart are advisably utilized for comparison only among the antennas within each chart itself either for vertical or horizontal polarization. Due to the unique nature of a particular antenna range, attempts to draw conclusions of comparison, relative measurements, or decibel gain/loss claims of other antennas not measured as part of this shootout with the measurements presented in these charts may result in significant error due to uncorrelated variables.

This antenna was measured in both the vertical and horizontal shootouts by request of the entrant. Due to the approximately 3/4wave of wire on 20m and the short loop's narrow vertical angle of the support spreaders, it exhibits significant vertically polarized radiation, even though it is fed from the bottom apex. The antenna represents a novel and viable approach to the problem of pedestrian mobile hands-free operation by mounting it on a packframe.

This antenna was measured in both the vertical and horizontal shootouts by request of the entrant. However, the antenna is primarily horizontally polarized. It is the only antenna which showed positive gain above the Horizontal Reference Element and a 45dB front-to-side ratio. Packable and very lightweight when collapsed, it is a huge full-size fullwave wire antenna which exhibits significant low angle efficiency even when the feedpoint is mounted very close to ground level, thus requiring no separate support. The base/feedpoint of the antenna was clamped to the wooden test table for the shootout testing. The design was not intended for active use while in motion as a Pedestrian Mobile antenna.

This antenna was measured both "with and without the counterpoise" by request of the manufacturer. A novel departure from the more conventional solenoid coil design, this antenna system utilizes a knob to adjust a tapped toroidal variable L network for resonating and matching the base of the telescopic whip. Although measured performance without the counterpoise was down about 19dB below its performance with the counterpoise, a low SWR match was easily achieved without the counterpoise connected, while relying only upon only the stray high impedance coupling across the windings of the Standard Feedpoint Fixture's 1:1 balun to the coaxial feedline to provide a reference plane.

For horizontal polarization tests, the Standard Feedpoint Fixture is set to a height of 16 feet unless noted otherwise.

Two element wires, the same ones used for the Reference Vertical Element, each made of  #14AWG stranded tinned copper wire 16feet 9inches in length are supported horizontally parallel to the ground in opposite directions from the Standard Feedpoint Fixture by insulator hollow fiber tapered poles. Some sag at the ends of the poles is noticed. The Reference Horizontal Element is rotated and fixed physically broadside to the direction of the receiving antenna site.

The combination of these two wires forms a dipole-like radiating element with a total length of 33 feet 6 inches with a substantially horizontally polarized wavefront in the direction of the test receiver antenna site. 

After reference measurements are made on the Reference Horizontal Element, it is removed from the fixture. All Antennas Under Test then utilize the same feedpoint fixture and feedline and are rotated to the field strength maxima.

The Reference Horizontal Element used for the purpose of this event can be considered practically to have substantially no positive gain over a theoretical dipole in free space, and all Antennas Under Test in the shootout measured in the Horizontal Polarization are simply referenced in decibels to the Reference Horizontal Element, with no calibration made to a theoretical dipole or isotropic radiator in free space. Therefore, the decibel measurements reported in this chart are advisably utilized for comparison only among the antennas within each chart itself either for vertical or horizontal polarization. Due to the unique nature of a particular antenna range, attempts to draw conclusions of comparison, relative measurements, or decibel gain/loss claims of other antennas not measured as part of this shootout with the measurements presented in these charts may result in significant error due to uncorrelated variables.

This antenna was measured, tested favorably compared to the reference, and independently verified. The decibel results are not reported because the entrant is an organizer of the event and this website. Fairness is important.