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[TowerTalk] Antenna Peformance

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Antenna Peformance
From: w7ni@teleport.com (Stan Griffiths)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:38:05 -0800 (PST)
>In a message dated 98-02-14 00:12:47 EST, k4sb@mindspring.com writes:
>
><< Well, off the top of my head, you are claiming greater than  12.75db over
> the other station. >>
>Not true, I routinely have bumped other high power stations using QRP or low
>power.  A good location is good for as much as 10 dB in my opinion.  Paul,
>KB8N

Who says the winner in any pileup is the loudest signal?  Timing your call
is at LEAST as important as being 10 dB louder than the next guy.
Sometimes, I would deliberately take weaker callers just to confound the
guns . . .

I wouldn't work W2NQ no matter HOW loud he was.

Stan  w7ni@teleport.com


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