Talk:High-gain antenna

Merge with High-gain antenna?

Do we really need both Directional antenna and High-gain antenna? A high-gain antenna is just a very highly directive antenna, so maybe this article should be merged into Directional antenna. On the other hand, the latter article could also be merged into this one. --Chetvorno^TALK 08:54, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

The example of a Yagi in the Gallery section, I would call directional but not high-gain as it has a single director. There is also a Low-gain antenna article stub - this may be about antennas which still have an appreciable directivity, but it's not entirely clear. So if any merging is to be done, I reckon it should be into Directional antenna. --catslash (talk) 17:07, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I propose that High-gain_antenna and Low-gain_antenna be merged into Antenna_(radio), or another simplification made. The two HGA and LGA articles do not need to stand on their own.

The pages are full of content and examples that are much better covered on the Antenna_(radio) and Antenna (Directional) pages. An HGA or LGA is not notable in the way that a monopole-, dipole-, whip-, dish-, or television- antenna is.

However, there are about 50 pages that link to High Gain Antenna, mostly about spacecraft, where HGA and LGA are well known and correctly used. Unfortunately the HGA and LGA pages don't actually point out the important features of the HGA and LGA, they just revise some basic antenna theory, and give examples and pictures.

What do you think is the best way forward? Perhaps LGA and HGA should each be a short stub to capture the links, mention the spacecraft context, and pass the user on to Antenna (Radio) and Antenna (Directional). This would save the maintenance of a content page.

Please discuss on the Talk:Antenna_(radio) page. Thomasonline (talk) 06:25, 2 June 2012 (UTC)