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[TowerTalk] Mosley PRO antennas - psychological factors

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Mosley PRO antennas - psychological factors
From: Dave_Raymond-CSUS04@email.mot.com (Dave Raymond-CSUS04)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:18:29 -0600
A two high stack of almost anything will beat a single anything simply
due to the benefits of both space and angle diversity.

73. . . Dave
W0FLS

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> From:
> jlangdon@outer.net%INTERNET[SMTP:jlangdon#064#outer.net%INTERNET@email
> .mot.com]
> Sent:         Friday, February 13, 1998 2:22 PM
> To:   TowerTalk@contesting.com%INTERNET
> Subject:      RE: [TowerTalk] Mosley PRO antennas - psychological
> factors
> 
> I think one of the psychological factors leading people to
> overestimate the 
> Mosley Pro series is the relatively good performance of the old TA33's
> and 
> CL-33's, in that many people simply assume the PRO will be much better
> than 
> those two.
> 
> Anecdotal evidence suggests it is not a big improvement over them in
> actual 
> performance.
> 
> However, it's big, it covers a lot of spectrum, and it's mechanically 
> sound.  If you do the "brochuremanship" exercises it seems like a
> smart 
> buy. It looks good.  Once you do all the work to get it up and
> running, 
> cognitive dissonance might prevent all but the most empirically
> rigorous of 
> us from admitting it that it is not working so well.
> 
> But I'd bet that two stacked C3's would win the horserace just about
> every 
> time, all else being equal.
> 
> 
> 
> 73 John N5CQ
> 
> K4RO wrote :
> 
> If you and Lew McCoy are right about Mosley antennas having negative
> gain, then y'all had better *WATCH OUT* when I put up some "real"
> antennas.
> 
> 
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