Message text written by Pete Smith
>But even more to the point, if you can find 1.76 dB somewhere (without
making your signal less intelligible, which is what I believe must happen
with turning up your 10000MP), it's 1.76 dB you didn't have before.
Replace your feedline with CATV hardline, and you find another 1-2 dB
(depending on band). Stack a second yagi 5/8 wave from the first, and
acquire 3 dB in the main lobe, plus the ability to shift your main lobe up
and down to suit conditions. And so on, and so on.<
Yes indeed. It's not the 1.76dB in isolation that improves the station;
it's the cumulative effect of several minor increments of improvement that
makes the real difference in performance.
John Nelson
GW4FRX
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