Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son

["Bob Maser" <bmaser@tampabay.rr.com>]

Jim, you are right.  What I plan to do is put up a 205BA and then compare it 
with a 4 element SteppIR.  (I won't tell anyone that I am only using 4 of 
the elements.  Let's keep it a secret, OK?).  Yagi performance is a function 
of boom length, not the number of elements.

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm@telia.com>
Cc: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son


> I don´t expect anything however it´s totally wrong calling that
> antenna a 204BA, it´s something else but no 204BA, it´s a "former"
> 204BA.
>
> /Jim SM2EKM
> ------------------
> Bob Maser wrote:
> > Surely you don't expect a 4 element on a 26 foot boom to be competition
> > for a 4 element SteppIR on a 32 or 34 foot , do you?  I was just
> > leveling the playing field by taking the boom from a 205BA and taking
> > away one of the directors.
> >
> > The day that some company comes out with an antenna that can vary the
> > length of the elements and change spacings between the elements, then I
> > will consider buying one,
> >
> > Bob W6TR
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm@telia.com>
> > Cc: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son
> >
> >
> > > However then it´s NO 204BA any more!
> > >
> > > / 73 Jim
> > > -------------
> > > Bob Maser wrote:
> > > > That's easy to do.  Take a 5 element 205BA, remove one of the 
> > > > directors,
> > > > run the YO antenna modeling program using the 34 foot boom and, viola,
> > > > you have a 4 element beam on a 34 foot boom.
> > > >
> > > > Bob W6TR
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
> > > > To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:03 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > The HyGain 204BA has a 26 ft boom, the 205BA has a 34 ft boom.
> > > > > Tell us more about your 204BA on a 34 ft boom?
> > > > >
> > > > > Doug
> > > > >
> > > > > After spending all that money for a SteppIr antenna, nobody's gonna
> > > > > call
> > > > >
> > > > > their kid ugly.  I am putting up a 4 element HyGain 204BA on a 34 foot
> > > > > boom.
> > > > > Can't wait to find me a horse race with a SteppIr!
> > > > >
> > > > > Bob  W6TR


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