[TowerTalk] Re: F12 customer service and antenna refurbishment

[Pete Smith]

At 09:20 PM 12/11/03 -0600, Didier Juges wrote:
>I bought the beam report from N0AX and K7LXC, and the Force 12 antennas
>certainly blow the competition away. The only measureable advantage of my
>24' boom TH7DX on the shorter F12 antenna (C3, 18' boom) is the front to
>back ratio. Most everything else is a wash.

This is entirely consistent with my modeling results, to within a dB or 
less.  One big advantage to the C-3 is that it weighs less than half what 
the TH-7 does; even I could handle it on the tower.


73, Pete N4ZR
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