Fw: Re: [TowerTalk] News from Bencher

[Pete Smith]

At 04:26 PM 7/16/00 -0400, Natan Huffman wrote:
...
>based on ad claims.  If we were to include our verified gain claims in
>advertising in QST and NCJ, our "lower" gain numbers would reach a greater
>audience.  A customer may well look at our numbers and then compare our
>numbers to a catalog or web page of one of our competitors where the
>customer sees our products have "less gain" than others.  We have position
>with the sophisticated buyer, but Joe Six-pack makes his decision based on
>what he sees in the catalog or another magazine such as CQ.
>
>The answer to all of this is to convince your ARRL director that your
>interests would be best served if any antenna ad in a League publication
>MUST be accompanied by gain claims verified by the same criteria now in
>place.  It's simple, if you sell an antenna through QST or NCJ, you as a
>manufacturer must show verified gain.  Verification of the required NEC IV
>file would not be burdensome to the lab at the League headquarters.
>
>We would welcome that change as it would certainly make ad claims a level
>playing field instead of a field of dreams!

Neat idea, but I'm not sure the trapped antenna guys would agree.  Good
models of trapped antennas (not to mention linear loading) seem to be
pretty tricky.  For that matter, NEC-2 has trouble with modeling the C-3
type of driven cell -- does NEC-4 do it any better?

73, Pete Smith N4ZR

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