[Towertalk] Is there a 2 element hf beam?

[Paul Playford]

We understand what you meant.  We also realize that you did not mean what
you said.

de Paul, W8AEF

----- Original Message -----
From: <K7LXC@aol.com>
To: <nielsen@oz.net>; <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Is there a 2 element hf beam?


> In a message dated 11/25/02 11:05:22 AM Pacific Standard Time,
nielsen@oz.net
> writes:
>
> > >     NONE of the 'small' antennas I know of (i.e. MA5, MiniQuad,
> Butterfly,
> >  > etc.) are all compromises in design and offer sub-par performance -
the
> > F12
> >  > is not a compromise and performs like a full-sized antenna.
> >
> >  Steve,
> >
> >  I'm sure that what you mean to say is that ALL of the 'small' antennas
> >  are compromises in design and offer sub-par performance.
> >
>     Nope - I meant what I said. The published gain figures for F12
antennas
> corroborate what we found in our tribander comparison tests so they're
> credible. The published difference in gain between a full-sized C-3 and
C-3SS
> is 0.5 dB on 20M, 0.1 dB on 15M, and the same on 10M so I'm going to call
the
> C-3SS performance 'the same as the full-sized version' and no compromise
due
> to its smaller size. I didn't say that there weren't compromises in the
> full-sized design (there are but that's a topic for another discussion).
>
>     The other 'small' antennas suffer from narrow bandwidth and little
> discernible directivity, F/S, or F/B differences. Those ARE performance
> compromises due to their small size.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve     K7LXC
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