I don't know the name of the facility, Is there more than one at Moses
Lake? The Mertel brothers, who own FluidMotion, may have conducted the
tests themselves, or engaged someone else to do the work. They seem to be
'hands on' guys, so probably they did it. The result of both modeling and
the tests are on the steppir web page. There are several folks better
versed in antenna design who lurk both here on TowerTalk and on the SteppIR
reflector who do some experimenting with the antenna. Personally I stick to
the factory defaults and am happy.
73
Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
To: "R. Kevin Stover" <rkstover@mchsi.com>; "Richard M. Gillingham"
<rmoodyg@bellsouth.net>
Cc: "K4SB" <k4sb@bellsouth.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Help in planning a new QTH
>> The entire SteppIR series of antennas has been extensively
> tested on an
>> antenna range. I believe at a place called Moses Lake.
>>
>
> That is my understanding as well, the published SteppIR
> numbers have
> been verified on the range rather than relying solely on the
> analysis/design software numbers.>>
>
> I can easily believe an attempt was made to veryify the
> antenna generally works as planned.
>
> I'm more than a little reluctant to believe gain has been
> verified by any sort of traceable method to any gain
> reference, especially one that would allow comparisons to
> other antennas.
>
> What was the name of the test facility?
>
> 73 Tom
>
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