[TowerTalk] Sommer antennas

[alsopb]

Here we go with the "superiority" of LPDA's again! 
The archives have adequate discussion debunking this.

Byron, if you're doing well with an LPDA you most likely would do
better with some the antennas you think others are using.  I doubt you
will find any of them with 50Khz bandwidth (maybe 160M).

73 de Brian/K3KO

Byron Peebles wrote:
> 
> Wes:
> 
> Not sure I agree.  My experience is that wide bandwidth antennas
> work the multipliers in the high end of the band much quicker than
> "real contesters" who have about 50 KHz of optimized bandwidth.
> 
> I use an MSquared 8 Element "Skip" Log Periodic and it worked
> great against locals with much more "sophisticated aluminum" in the air.
> 
> In this year's WAE, I received reports of S9+50 using ~100 watts into Europe.
> One Turkish mobile was especially emphatic.  So it receives well, too.
> 
> In CQWW, it certainly held its own against any of the multi-single stations in
> the area.
> 
> I was building a SOA contest station when I put this in.  With an 87A you can
> concentrate more on the CONTACT and less on the EQUIPMENT.
> 
> 73, Byron
> 
> At 20:25 2000-11-25 -0500, Wes Cosand wrote:
> >So is this an appropriate antenna for your station?  Not if you are a
> >building a contest station.
> 
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