[Towertalk] Need Antenna Advice!

[Steve Katz]

Hi Steve,

Not according to their own published data...the StepIR changes element
length for optimization, but element spacing remains fixed and obviously
cannot be ideal over an octave of bandwidth.

-WB2WIK/6

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	K7LXC@aol.com [SMTP:K7LXC@aol.com]
> Sent:	Friday, September 13, 2002 12:56 PM
> To:	Steve Katz; K4MK@triad.rr.com; Aidehua@aol.com
> Cc:	towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject:	Re: [Towertalk] Need Antenna Advice!
> 
> In a message dated 9/13/02 11:07:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> stevek@jmr.com 
> writes:
> 
> > You might consider how important F/B is to you...the TH11 is excellent
> on
> >  all bands; the StepIR is good on 20m and degrades on the higher bands..
> 
>     I think it's the other way around. The StepIR is an optimized 3L beam
> AT 
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> 
> Cheers,
> Steve   K7LXC
> TOWER TECH