Keep 'em straight & narrow, Uncle Bob !!
Malcolm Ringel
ARS K3KZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "bob finger" <finger@goeaston.net>
To: <K2EK@aol.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] ALTERNATIVE TRIBANDER or the Ideal TriBander...
>
>
> K2EK@aol.com wrote in part:
>
> Lets face facts... you are not going to WIN a contest (I mean WIN the
> thing
> number 1 single op..) with a tribander. Maybe state, maybe section, bit...
> there are just too many good ops with real antenna farms to consider
> WINNING the
> whole shebang.
>
> Weeeeell: I can only say that in the 2005 ARRL DX SSB test NN3W did
> indeed WIN the USA low power single op category using the W9GE antenna
> farm. Antennas; OptiBeam OB16-3 tribander at 80 feet and Force 12 C3E
> tribander at 40 feet. The 40 antenna was a Moxon at 80 feet on 75 a delta
> loop and an inverted L on 160. To reinforce the point, Rich came very
> close to exceeding the all time low power usa single op record with his
> 2005 performance
>
> You indeed can WIN with a tribander. You do need to be a superb operator
> and location helps a bunch too. 73 bob de w9ge
>
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