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Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS
From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:23:17 -0400
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Work DX on about anything<:-))

I put the big 6-meter Yagi up around a peak. I was working DX left and right. I heard a central American station, not all that loud, but easily Q5, so I called him. He hadn't really expected an answer as he was working on the rig, on the work bench with a test lead stuck into the coax connector.

Maybe so, maybe not, but that's what he said and he appeared to be surprised enough for it to be real.

73

Roger (K8RI)


 On 4/12/2015 10:23 PM, Mike Ryan wrote:
Jim, I suppose going any further on this discussion, just looks like a no win situation. No one is disputing the work that K7LXC and N0AX or K4XS (who has done more to study antennas, take off angles, etc than anyone I know since he jumps around the globe like a ping pong ball on the ocean, and always ending up with a killer station) have done or that it isn't the bottom line or the last word. On the other hand, when people have their minds made up....they are just made up. Some of that is just because they read what someone else has said. The point I was making about the Mosley is that the antenna, is working for the guy. I/you/we all hear all the time how well antennas are working for this guy and that...that what they have is the greatest antenna they have every had. But that in some cases is because it has been the ONLY antenna they have ever had. Not in the case for the op who now has a Mosley. But he also has little money to spend and I felt that in the spirit of ham radio (blah blah) that I would help him, put it up, and get him back on the air. Now, he had a Mosley antenna sitting there...got it very reasonably priced and did not have to pay shipping....that's two bonus points in my mind. It is now sitting on his tower because he is too old to climb or to crank and I am neither. Jeff (AC0C) made the point, and I guess to summarize, that on any given Sunday, given the right conditions, the phase of the moon, the rise of the tide, and the blink of an eye one can work dx on about anything. I interjected, 'even a Mosley' as is the case. I have been fortunate enough to use something different I suppose and would say that I'm quite satisfied with my station considering. Were that I had a Mosley antenna, perhaps not. I guess it would depend on the moon, etc. In any event I am not going to bash or belittle anyone for what they are able to get up in the air, it may be only worth so much to do it in the first place, and if in fact would be worth more, perhaps they couldn't afford to do it at all.
I hope you enjoy what you have in any event.  '73, Mike

-----Original Message----- From: D. Scott MacKenzie
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:15 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS

That is why I gave up - my antennas were not worthy. I don't have multiple
towers, with multiple wavelength mono-banders or stacked Steppers.  So I
figure that there was little point of continuing regardless of my DXCC
total.

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Brown
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 6:30 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS

On Sun,4/12/2015 2:39 PM, Mike Ryan wrote:
all the bashing that has been going on lately about Mosley Antennas
fits in well right here. My retired friend who is on a budget, bought
a used  Mosley TA53 ( I think that is the correct model).

Advice based on the carefully done measurements by K7LXC and N0AX is NOT
bashing -- it is based on FACTS.

Steve and Ward documented their work very carefully and thoroughly, and
published it as a bound report. They also did a study of HF verticals. I
bought both reports. I learned a LOT about both the antenna performance
AND some technical analysis of WHY things performed as they did.

Joe, W4TV bought the reports too -- that's the basis of his comments.

Go to K7LXC's Champion Radio Products website. About $20 each as I
recall. And while you're there, also buy N6BT's excellent A Ray Of Light
book on antennas.

73, Jim K9YC


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