On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:50:26PM -0700, cqki8fh@juno.com wrote:
> I have noticed in advertising of the TH11 beam, that MFJ wants to call
> them or go to a web site to get the gain and front to back figures. Why
> don't they just publish them. Do you think there is a reason such
> figures should not published? I remember reading awhile back one
> advertised a 2 meter vertical and said "gain figures to large to be
> published," or something to that. Is this just an advertising ploy to
> get you to call them? Just asking.
> Thanks
That is only in the QST advertisements. The ARRL has a very strict
policy relative to claims (especially antenna gain) in advertisements
as a result of some rather inventive ways in which some manufacturers
in the past did their measurements to get unrealistically high values
of gain.
The Hy-Gain advertisements in CQ show values for gain and f/b.
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