[TowerTalk] Antenna surface area

[EUGENE SMAR]

I take it that no one finds my suggestion of collecting physical
measurements of antenna components of value.  Oh, well,... back to the hole
in my yard!


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sunday, June 10, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna surface area


>At 09:11 AM 6/10/01 -0500, WA9ALS wrote:
>...
>>On a serious note, I don't think antenna manufacturers lie to us about
stuff
>>like wind surface area.  What's really more important than any one claim
is
>>whether antenna, tower, and rotator manufacturers are using the same
methods
>>to calculate surface area of the things that they are testing!  73
>
>Agreed, but antenna manufacturers have a marketing interest in keeping
>their numbers generous ("Sure, that'll go on your tower"), while tower and
>rotator manufacturers have an interest in using the most conservative
>numbers ("Well, you shouldn't have overloaded it, or it wouldn't have
>failed").  They can use numbers that meet their differing needs, simply by
>picking and choosing from the range of what's available.
>
>What behooves us, as consumers, is to press for defined numbers so that we
>can be sure we have apples vs apples, instead of apples vs oranges.
>
>73, Pete N4ZR
>No, no ... that's WEST Virginia
>
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