Fw: Re: [TowerTalk] News from Bencher
wa4dou@juno.com
wa4dou@juno.com
Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:14:57 -0400
Hi Mark, K4OJ and others,
Why, of course, the factors you both cited, play a part in this.
However, in the marketplace, nothing like direct competition has as much
influence, generally speaking, on other manufacturers. While we're giving
credit where its due, lets not leave out "the tribander comparison
report" and "the vertical comparison report" done by N0AX and K7LXC.
This was a very beneficial series of tests and i recommend them to all,
highly. 73 Roy WA4DOU
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:44:21 -0400 "K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
>
> ...didn't the ARRL ask for some sort of standard to be followed a
> few years
> back...mebbe that is an element, too
>
> k4oj
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <KI7WX@aol.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [TowerTalk] News from Bencher
>
>
> >
> > >I believe the recent trend towards more truthful gain claims from
> Cushcraft
> > and possibly others, >is a direct result of Force 12 and M2 being
> there.
> >
> > I think this is much too generous a statement. IMHO what forced
> antenna
> > companies to make less exaggerated statements about gain is the
> easy
> > availability of good computer modeling which can be run on the
> average
> ham's
> > desktop computer. Brian, Lew, Roy and others deserve much credit
> for
> that.
> > Although we all recognize that the predictions are not necessarily
> what
> you
> > get in the real world, the ability to compare antennas under the
> same
> > conditions in silico provide a decent idea of what will happen and
> that
> has
> > been a wonderful addition to our station building endeavors.
> >
> > The next step in the right direction is for antenna companies to
> make
> their
> > models freely available to anyone that wants to use them for
> comparison
> > purposes. Hy-Gain did this years ago and Mike at M2 has sent me
> every
> model
> > I've ever asked him for. Others have been less helpful.
> >
> > >Force 12 has obviously stimulated competition in the marketplace.
> We all
> > benefited!
> >
> > You might want to check with the guys that were at Dayton talking
> about
> 80M
> > beams or others that spent their youth trying to tune a 40M
> section of a
> C4
> > tribander before you get too carried away with the "all"
> part....:-)
> >
> > More seriously, from my biased perspective of life I'm not sure
> we've all
> > benefited from what has happened in the antenna marketplace over
> the last
> few
> > years. There are fewer choices today for commercial antennas than
> there
> were
> > when I first became interested in station building, there is a
> smaller
> > selection of HF antennas for the serious dude, and prices are on
> the rise.
> I
> > would certainly agree that in the small tribander world F12 has
> done a
> very
> > good job of providing products that people want and that is great
> too.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> > KI7WX
> >
> >
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