[Towertalk] Re: [Towertalk] Quad vs Yagi

[Steve Katz]

This is not a very useful comparison, especially today, considering how long
W2PV's been dead.

I might as well discuss how well W6AM did with nothing but wires...

-WB2WIK/6

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -
Mario Andretti

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Tope [SMTP:W4EF@dellroy.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 19, 2002 8:13 AM
> To:	K3BU@aol.com; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject:	Re: [Towertalk] Re: [Towertalk] Quad vs Yagi
> 
> 
> > My Razors outperformed stacked arrays at old W2PV, proof in contest
> results
> > and many times hearing pileups of Eu stations that W2PV was not
> responding
> to.
> >
> 
> Yuri, I am curious. Have you ever compared your single band scores with
> the
> equivalent W2PV band scores with and without all of those 2 point W's
> removed
> from your score? Did you ever go head to head with W2PV in the ARRL DX
> contest where VE's don't get points for W's.
> 
> Also, do you think its fair to compare antenna performance with a station
> who
> is hundreds of miles away? I often hear W6KP in Anza running euro's on 15
> meters
> that I can't hear at W6UE in Pasadena. We are both using computer
> optimized
> long
> boom monoband yagis. What does that prove? It proves that W6KP is in a
> quiet
> mountain top location and further south from me. Does it prove his antenna
> is
> "better" than mine? I hardly think so.
> 
> 73 de Mike, W4EF.........................................................
> 
> 
> 
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