[RTTY] 2004 RTTY Roundup -lets stir the pot again!

[Jerry Flanders]

I have a suggestion:

>...how's about an article on how easily the ops WITH YAGIS AND TOWERS blow 
>away
>the competition.. Look at a couple of years worth of contest scores and
>compare the highest BEAM ANTENNA scores to the highest WIRE DIPOLES scores 
>(in high and
>low power categories) to show that the best BEAM ANTENNA scores average 
>1/4th to
>1/3rd higher than the best WIRE DIPOLE scores; that BEAM ANTENNAS provides 
>a greater
>advantage than by moving up to the High Power category (compare WIRE DIPOLE
>high power to BEAM ANTENNA low power scores which shows that BEAM ANTENNA 
>LP wins over
>WIRE DIPOLE HP almost every time); and, why contest committees, led by the
>ARRL, continue to refuse to acknowledge the BEAM ANTENNA advantage, including
>published admissions by top BEAM ANTENNA ops that it is a fantastic, though
>somewhat complicated and costly advantage to obtain.

Jerry Flanders W4UK