Happens all the time in contests. But that isn't the point. Contesters
need/want an infinite number of antennas from which to choose for every
condition that may occur. It's a matter of expense and how much you can
afford, not a technical issue.
That's why contesters have a top Yagi to beat the long haul pileups.
Maybe the average station owner can't afford it, or doesn't encounter these
conditions ever, but that doesn't mean the capability should be ignored.
Bill, N3RR
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Coleman
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:22 PM
To: Pete Smith; TowerTalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Are higher HF antenna's really better?
On 1/10/02 2:11 PM, Pete Smith at n4zr@contesting.com wrote:
>Dave, look at W3LPL, KC1XX et al, with 200-foot-high yagis on 20 and 15,
>and ask yourself whether people who build stations like that would waste
>their money if one wavelength high was enough.
But these guys don't just put one antenna on these high towers. They load
them up with yagis all driven in a stack.
I'm sure these guys rarely find conditions where a SINGLE yagi above 1.5
wavelengths is outmatched by a SINGLE yagi higher in the stack.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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