Hmm, one can imagine coming down the pike within a few years software upgrades
that will allow you to enter your stack height (heights of all the individual
antennas in the stack), maybe even terrain, all the variables that can be
thought of and accounted for, time of day, time of year, A and K index, where
you're trying to work, and the array will adjust as a unit to optimize
everything for it! Next, interface it with your logging software and when you
type in a callsign prefix, zip-zip, it optimizes quickly for that individual
station! Or enter the "all Europe" option and, without further "handling," it
keeps optimizing the stack, during the entire opening, for "all Europe," all
"in the background" without interrupting anything the operator is doing. Whoa
baby!
73 - Rich, KE3Q
----- Original Message -----
From: Howard Klein
To: wsio-alp7@xemaps.com
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: FW: RE: [TowerTalk] SteppIR VS Force 12
What I do is model the STACK for the parameters I am most interested in,
usually that is for max gain. I then adjust the elements to those physical
lengths. The software does not know that there is a stack so I must adjust
each antenna individually. The actual procedure is a bit more complex
involving several steps but once recorded to memory it requires only a quick
push of a button.
Howard..K2HK
----Original Message Follows----
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
I'm curious. Generally speaking, yagis in a stack need to be optimized for
that use, particularly to get the best F/B ratio out of them. Does the
SteppIR software "know" that your antennas are in a stack, or is it just
doing what it knows how to do with each antenna as a separate entity?
73, Pete N4ZR
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