Of course, I know all of that stuff. And I don't contend that anecdotal evidence
replaces careful measurements and/or calculations. What I have a problem with
is your "expertise", which is simply more anecdotal storytelling:
"In general, verticals RULE on 160M, because ANY horizontal antenna is a LOW
antenna on 160M. And it will NOT be good for NVIS either, contrary to urban
myth. It will just be lousy for both short haul and DX. "
I want to see folks with an "easy" 100, 150, 200 countries on 160 move their
stuff down here to my patch of desert (https://www.qrz.com/db/N7WS) and then
tell me how "easy" it is.
Wes N7WS
On 1/24/2018 10:12 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 1/24/2018 8:35 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
I have only 86 entities worked. Apparently, I failed to get the message since
sixty-seven of them were worked with an inverted-vee dipole with apex at 45'
and the ends barely above head high.
You do know about "good, better, best," don't you? You do know about
efficency, and horizontal and vertical directivity, don't you? The difference
between your antenna and a much better one can easily be >10 dB. Half that
csan be the difference between being heard or not on the other end, and that
becomes increasingly true as local noise levels increase. N6BT has famously
said "everything 'works'" while describing working all continents using a
light bulb (carefully decoupled from the feedline) as his antenna.
The first hundred countries are the easiest (the first 150 if you're around
the Atlantic basin).
73, Jim K9YC
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