This reminds me of an experience I had with a new antenna. After working
several days installing a new antenna, I attached it to an a/b switch to
compare it with my old antenna. I was delighted, the new antenna was always
better !!! Then to my dismay I saw I had the switch reversed ... oh boy...
I changed the feeds, and continued the test. Guess what.. the new antenna
was still always better.
Lesson learned .... human nature and switching antennas in face of QSB.>>>
There is more truth to that than most of us realize.
I put up a G5RV about 100 feet in the air, and I used a pretty good
feedline. Doing tests against a dipole on 75 meters, the antenna I called a
"G5RV" would almost always get a worse report than the antenna I called a
"dipole", even during the times when I called the antennas by the opposite
names of what they really were.
When I would do a test using "antenna 1" or "antenna 2", they were almost
even.
The most extraordinary thing was with a good friend who just absolutely
hated G5RV antennas. He would say "your audio sounds worse on the "G5RV" " .
This was true even when I called the dipole a G5RV, or didn't change
antennas at all and just said I was changing.
I really think this is why I installed a 300-foot tower just so I could
have a high dipole. I "distinctly remembered' how well a 300-foot high
dipole I had worked, and I wanted another one. After I installed the dipole
here and compared it to a vertical and other antennas for a year or two, I
finally remembered how well my old 1/4 wave vertical worked. :)
This was eye opening to me.
73 Tom
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