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In a message dated 5/30/02 7:18:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jljarvis@adelphia.net writes:

> My own experience with out-of-phase stacks was inconclusive,
>  but not rigorous, as it was during contests.  Others have
>  said basically the same thing.  

    Anyone who has seen Bob Heil, K9EID's demonstration of in-phase and 
out-of-phase audio will agree that out-of-phase is pretty useless since 
everything gets cancelled out. Some stack problems are a result of the baluns 
being hooked up backwards which puts them out-of-phase. 

    Strictly anecdotal but doesn't give me any warm fuzzies about using an 
out-of-phase antenna system. 

Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC
TOWER TECH