[TowerTalk] Re: Quads not as good as Yagis

[L. B. Cebik]

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Charles H. Harpole wrote:
> L.B., What is that little * doing in your cute drawing signature of a beam
> and a mountain?  Is * a little blob of RF eminating from your antenna?
> A photon of RF?
> Inquiring minds want to know.  K4VUD
> 

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Charles,

I am not sure everyone wants to know, but it is just a star, if you
receive the message at night, or the sun, if you receive it during the
day, or a sunspot, if you receive it during a band opening.  In fact, the
design is altogether different depending on your screen or paper readout.
The leftmost objects can be Smoky Mountain trees or just the Smoky
Mountains themselves.  The antenna can be a single 3-element Yagi or a
stack of two.  I try to concentrate all my ambiguity in drawings so that
none is left over when I try to explain something about antennas clearly.

But you do know the old poem:

  Star light.  Star bright.
  First star I see tonight.
  I wish I may, I wish I might,
  Have the QSO I wish tonight.

-73-

LB, W4RNL




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