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Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIR gain

To: jimjarvis@ieee.org
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] SteppIR gain
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:13:36 -0800 (PST)
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Jim Jarvis said:
>
10.6          9.5
>
> Those Steppir gain figures are very questionable.  They are significantly
> higher
> than the gain figures for optimized yagi designs in the 20th edition of
> the

Conventional designs are "optimized" in the sense of covering
the whole band.  The SteppIR is optimized at a single frequency.
This the SteppIR, as a "monofrequency" antenna, should be able
to out perform a "monoband" antenna.

Rick N6RK

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