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From: cwman@juno.com (Fred W Hoffert)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:50:31 PST
Rick, technically I'm sorry I can't help.  I can only say that I hope to
live long enough and ham long enough to some day be able to say, "My
antenna is too high!"  

73 es good luck,

Fred/NA2U (Eating my heart out in NJ)
CWMAN...I'D RATHER WORK CW!!!  

On Tue, 7 Oct 1997 07:04:16 -0400 Rick Dougherty NQ4I
<NQ4I@compuserve.com> writes:
>Bill Fisher and I have been bantering back and forth on a topic that I 
>feel
>is now worth bringing to the reflector...I just recently installed a 6 
>el
>10m yagi on a 28 foot boom ( former klm 610) which had been recently 
>yagi
>optimized by W4EA...with this antenna at the 145 foot level on my 
>tower it
>is 1-2 s units down from my other 2 antennas on 10m ,a 7 el on a 42 ft 
>boom
>at 45 feet, and a 8 el on a 48 ft boom at 55 ft...I think on the paths 
>that
>I have tested that the 6 el is just too high...Bill thinks that 
>something
>else is wrong....I have tested the new 6 el on the LU-PY path in the 
>day
>tim, and the VK-ZL path at night..I realize that this is by no means a
>valid test, but I think that N4KG would certainly agree with me that 
>this
>thing is too high...
>
>Any other ideas or comments??
>
>The new 10 m 6 has some nice characteristics though...it is extremely
>quiet, ground wave and back scatter contacts are much better...to name 
>a
>few...
>
>comments please...de Rick
>
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