Doug make some good points.
I'd also ask if anyone actually checked out his new station to make sure
it was hooked up properly and showing a good SWR?
I also wonder if he assembled the antenna correctly. Was there solder
in the connectors? Don't laugh...OK, go ahead and laugh, but I have
seen it. I've worked locals on the dummy load...Course I worked N8ERF
(Bout 2 blocks distant) when I THOUGHT I was on the dummy load and tuned
for "tilt"! He heard me quite well. Considering the power I thought I
was running into the dummy load, I imagine hams in many states outside
of Michigan did as well.
Always double check what coax goes where after reassembling the
station! <sheesh!>
Not that anyone else on here has done that.
We've had a few hams in the area over the years where it took several
trips to get them operating. They seemed to have little idea as to what
was required for operating, or safety.
73
Roger (K8RI)
On 2/19/2015 5:13 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
People sometimes leave out important details in order to further their
beliefs. For example which Mosley antenna was he using? On what band were
you comparing? You say it worked fine for local and stateside but not for
DX. So that could imply something other than the antenna. Was he running
the same power as you?
These questions need to be answered.
Doug
I wasn't born in Saskatchewan, but I got here as soon as I could.
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well I guess I knew that my post would stir up the proverbial hornets
nest but my comparison was with 3 different hams all within a 30 mile
radius using identical rigs and different antennas; one of which was a
Mosley. Obviously antennas all work to some degree and some are just not
as "great" as others. My first ever yagi was one I made when I went from
novice to general in 1960 up in Ohio. It was a 2 el 15 with a wooden
boom and wooden el supports. Did it work? Yes. Was it the best antenna
ever.... not by a long shot, but it was my love at the time. My next
experience was with the Gotham tribander 3 el with wire beaters at the
el tips.... Cadillac city at the time but it worked but a long way from
optimum. The WB4 I cited with the Mosley antenna just was not able to
accept the fact that he had an antenna that worked ok but not as good as
his neighbors setups. It worked fine for local and stateside but simply
was not a good long haul dx antenna. At that time there was a lot of
antenna comparisons going on with the guys in the dx community and the
Mosley boys usually came out on the bottom. Just the way it was. As long
as one is happy with what he has , then I think that is the way to go!
The tornadoes that came thru Alabama several years ago took all my
monobanders down and I ended up just putting a KT36XA back up. It works
quite well but not like the monobanders. But I am happy with it!
Everyone should be happy that they have an outdoors antenna regardless
of how well it is perceived to work... a lot stuck in apartments! I hope
that I did not cause too much up-roar, just wanted to put my experiences
out there... lol, 73's Cort K4WI
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