ve4xt (A ham with obvious extraordinary expertise associated with all things
electronic, with a call like that) writes:
"i would disagree: the dBi numbers seem in line with other trapless 2-el
designs, such as the C3 or XR3."
Tom, N6BT in his book Array of Light, goes to great lengths to specify the
parameters associated with gain specs. Good stuff, well known.
But then he goes on to claim that his 2 element designs will beat any trapped
tribander regardless of size! Who knows? But It doesn't appear as if Ken of
JK Antennas has done anything to distort the gain figures right from the highly
respected NEC4 model from which his antennas are built. What else could you
ask for? No wild claims, no marketing hype. Isn't this what we've been
demanding of antenna manufacturers for 50 years?
Rick K2XT
By the way, sorry that I am unable to delete the text below. Hotmail does not
give me an option that I can find.
> From: ve4xt@mymts.net
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:41:49 -0500
> To: samsadventure@gmail.com
> CC: towertalk@contesting.com; mathenyr@marietta.edu
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] JK Navassa antenna
>
> i would disagree: the dBi numbers seem in line with other trapless 2-el
> designs, such as the C3 or XR3.
>
> They’d be way high if they were quoted as dBd numbers, but take off the,
> what, 2.4 dB, to get to dBd and 4 dB and change sounds reasonable. At least,
> way more reasonable than, say, 8 dBd that some three-element trapped
> tribanders pretend to have...
>
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
>
>
> > On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:55 PM, <samsadventure@gmail.com>
> > <samsadventure@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > no, but the claimed gain for 2 elements on each band seems high
> >
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> > Sam N5FO
> >
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> > From: Ralph Matheny K8RYU
> > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 12:29 PM
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
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> > Does anybody have any direct experience with this antenna? I looked
> > at it at Dayton, as an item for our club to purchase, and I'm wondering
> > how it works out for real users.
> >
> > de K8RYU
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