In a message dated 9/13/02 1:01:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, stevek@jmr.com
writes:
> Not according to their own published data...the StepIR changes element
> length for optimization, but element spacing remains fixed and obviously
> cannot be ideal over an octave of bandwidth.
Well, that still trumps fixed element lengths. I've been told many times
that element spacing in multiband yagis is a pretty small degradation but I'm
not an antenna modeling guy.
Nonetheless the anecdotal on-the-air info on the StepIR is pretty
exciting.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
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