- 1. Topband: 8 vs 4 direction 4-SQ? (score: 1)
- Author: Gary K9GS <k9gs@gjschwartz.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:11:06 -0500
- A couple of companies, LBS and RemoteQTH, have started selling 8 direction 4- SQ controllers.I'm trying to understand if this would be worthwhile. My reasoning is that the main lobe is so broad you h
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00248.html (6,350 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: 8 vs 4 direction 4-SQ? (score: 1)
- Author: Andrey Fedorishchev <ra6lbs@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:57:27 +0300
- Gary, Those who can make A/B test between nearby standard and new directions can tell you how important it is to have just few dB difference. Copy/no copy in some cases. At the price of few more cont
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00250.html (8,419 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: 8 vs 4 direction 4-SQ? (score: 1)
- Author: John Kaufmann via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:11:02 -0400
- For signals that arrive from directions that are in between the main lobe headings of a 4-square, you will lose up to a few dB of S/N compared to having 8 directions. Whether that matters to you is p
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00251.html (8,728 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: 8 vs 4 direction 4-SQ? (score: 1)
- Author: S57AD <mirko.s57ad@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:15:36 +0100
- If I were younger, if I had enough resources and huge real estate, I would go for 8-circle BSEF array, which is even simplier than 4-square (just two phases involved)... 73 Mirko, S57AD V V et., 19.
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00252.html (9,498 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: 8 vs 4 direction 4-SQ? (score: 1)
- Author: Gary K9GS <k9gs@gjschwartz.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:26:36 -0500
- 73,Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: S57AD <mirko.s57ad@gmail.com> Date: 3/19/20 4:15 PM (GMT-06:00) To: john.kaufmann@verizon.net Cc: Gary K9GS <k9gs@gjschwartz.com>, TopBand List <topband@conte
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00253.html (9,068 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: 8 vs 4 direction 4-SQ? (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm@telia.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:21:24 +0100
- Yes loobs are broad but even so there are a small area in betwen two main loobs that are quite a bit down. I´ve been using an 8 direction 4 square vertical array on 80m for 30 years and on stuff righ
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00254.html (9,196 bytes)
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