[TowerTalk] perspective

[Tom Whiteside]

This is highly annecdotal but I went from a single transmitter contest
station with a TH7DXS on a 100 ft tower with a TH3 stacked onit at 66 feet
to a multi-2 station with separate towers with stacks for 40M, 20M, 15M and
10M...   With essentially the same opperator team for the ARRL DX CW and SSB
contests, the results expressed in $/QSO were essentially flat - which
surprised me - you'd expect diminishing returns...  Of course 2 transmitters
helped a great deal but that is not nearly enough to explain the factor of
approximately 5 in spending!   Conditions year to year are another factor
but we were tormented this year but horrible line noise that squashed the
normally productive JA runs this year...   I think the team also gained in
experience which is hard to quanitify...   Nevertheless, being LOUD is real
advantage in holding a frequency and in being called...  Also really helps
to work the great multitude of stations with very modest antennas...
Effective stacks are also a big factor here and it also clouds the data a
bit...  The clarity when listening to very weak stations on a stack is
awesome versus single beams and that helped with the numbers for sure...

my 2 cents  Tom N5TW
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>; "Mel Martin" <mel@interlink.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] perspective
> > I've been racking my brain trying to think of a way to test the theory
> > that a few dB of signal makes a big difference in a contest, but I
> > can't think of a way to prove or disprove it.
> >
> > Can anyone?



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