Yup. And I've broken through mondo pileups on DX stations first call with my
MA5B at 30 feet. I've had folk in SS say I'm the loudest guy they hear. One
guy in California said I was 40 over s9, and I was using a 20m Hamstick five
feet in the air with one counterpoise.
I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean either is a better antenna than a KC1XX
stack.
Guys have worked lots of DX with Isotron loops, yet you don't see k4xs
rushing to put a bunch up his towers. Lots of people work lots of stuff on
half-slopers, yet I don't think anyone can dispute the engineering that says
it's a bad design, even if the odd blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut.
The success you may or may not have with an antenna has a lot of variables
behind it. To say that Honor Roll on a Pro67b means it's a better antenna
than a C31XR is quite a stretch.
73, kelly
ve4xt
On 12/3/13 8:46 PM, "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> On 12/3/2013 6:24 PM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
>> Working a lot of countries is no
>> indication of an antenna's performance.
>
> Right. Over a period of a year or so, I have 125 countries worked QRP.
> N6BT has often talked about working all continents in a relatively short
> period of time on a light bulb.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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