[TowerTalk] Stacked tri-banders vs. Single mono-banders

[Fred Hopengarten]

From:	
Fred Hopengarten  K1VR               781/259-0088
Six Willarch Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
permanent e-mail address:  fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu


On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:39:24 -0800 henry gillow-wiles <henry@rio.com>
writes:

>[Other big monobanders and] I'm looking for a 4 or 5 ele mono for 10m if
I don't do the th7 stack.


K1VR:  Are you a DX'er or contester?  As gain goes up, beamwidth goes
down.After all, it's gotta come from somewhere!  With stacking, you
create a wider, deeper footprint, but you are weaker. I've invented a
phrase for this:  "It's a trade-off." A TH7 is the equivalent of a 3 el
beam on 20 and 15, a 4 el beam on 10.

Me?  I'm a contester. I have a three high stack of TH6/TH7. I'd rather be
relatively loud in a lot of places than really loud in a few.

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