[CQ-Contest] Contest QTH

[k3bu at optimum.net]

Maybe déjà vu of déjà vu, but my further observations by "my own lying eyes" over the "unshakable truth" of software models tells me otherwise. There is much more to the salty beach than dBs in soft models.
We have seen comparisons of whip in the sand vs. stacked monsters inland.
Time to look closer at the design of monsters for the beach, which I hope to be able do soon.
It will be interesting to compare notes between optimized 18 elements on the beach vs. farmland.
 
Here some interesting event and possible implications to our radio stuff:
Seismographs all over recorded an odd event about 7 hours ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2520949/posts
and
http://www.etheric.com/GalacticCenter/GRB.html

 
73 Yuri  K3BU.us

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Tippett 
Date: Monday, May 24, 2010 5:19 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest QTH
To: cq-contest at contesting.com

> > W4ZV:
> >
> >> While salt water is definitely good for verticals, but it
> >> doesn't help horizontally polarized antennas like Yagis.
> >
> >
> > Not true. Even horizontally polarized antennas gain from the 
> salt water. Besides enhancement from the ground, reflection 
> conditions in the immediate vicinity of the array, signals at 
> the salt water edge are enhanced regardless of polarization.
> 
> EZNEC shows minor improvement for horizontal 
> polarization over
> salt water but it's at high angles...not low angles as is the 
> case for
> vertical polarization. At 14 degrees TOA, there's a 0.51 dB
> advantage, at 7 degrees a 0.26 dB advantage, at 3.5 degrees a 
> 0.16 dB
> advantage. The reason for this is that ground conductivity has less
> reflectivity effect as the incidental angles become very low.
> 
> Isn't this discussion déjà vu of déjà vu?
> 
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-
> 01/msg00022.html
> 73, Bill W4ZV
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