Bob, you're right.
I'm experimenting with an "E-H" antenna right now at home. It's 20-30 dB
down from a full-sized vertical, but I make contacts easily with it, and
9J2CA came back to me first call in a small pileup...which makes me wonder
not how well my antenna was working, but how lousy others' must have
been....
WB2WIK/6
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -
Mario Andretti
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Wanderer [SMTP:aa0cy@VRINTER.NET]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:50 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [Towertalk] choices
>
> All radiating devices (antennas) follow Gooch's Law: The RF
> gotta go somewhere!
>
> 73
> Bob AA0CY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Joe
> Reisert
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:27 PM
> To: Steve Katz; 'Jon Ogden'; 'David';
> towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [Towertalk] choices
>
>
> Steve,
>
> I worked over 275 entities on 80 and over 300 on 40 with my
> G5RV (at my
> prior QTH before moving to the new QTH) so I guess "LEAKY
> DUMMY LOADS" DO
> WORK...SOMETIMES.
>
> Joe, W1JR
>
>
> At 07:46 AM 10/9/2002 -0700, Steve Katz wrote:
> >Hi Jon,
> >
> >Re G5RV on 80m, I like to think of it as leaky dummy load.
> It's amazing how
> >much better a simple 125' dipole works, at only 23'
> longer...
> >
> >WB2WIK/6
> >
> >"If everything seems under control, you're just not going
> fast enough." -
> >Mario Andretti
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jon Ogden [SMTP:na9d@speakeasy.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 5:48 PM
> > > To: Steve Katz; 'David'; towertalk@contesting.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Towertalk] choices
> > >
> > > on 10/8/02 3:16 PM, Steve Katz at stevek@jmr.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > I wouldn't mount a G5RV as an inverted vee; actually a
> G5RV's not much
> > > of an
> > > > antenna on 80m at all, so I wouldn't bother with it.
> > >
> > > I agree. I had one up and dumped it for an Alpha-Delta
> multi-band dipole
> > > which while very sharp and narrow banded on 80 still is
> a very good
> > > antenna
> > > for domestic stations on 80 and 40 at my height of about
> 45 feet.
> > >
> > > The G5RV on 80 sorta acts like a capacitively loaded
> vertical, but not
> > > really....
> > >
> > > 73,
> > >
> > > Jon
> > > NA9D
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------
> > > Jon Ogden
> > > NA9D (ex: KE9NA)
> > >
> > > Life Member: ARRL, NRA
> > > Member: AMSAT, DXCC
> > >
> > > http://www.qsl.net/ke9na
> > >
> > > "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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