FW: RE: [TowerTalk] SteppIR VS Force 12

[RICHARD BOYD]

Hmm, one can imagine coming down the pike within a few years software upgrades that will allow you to enter your stack height (heights of all the individual antennas in the stack), maybe even terrain, all the variables that can be thought of and accounted for, time of day, time of year, A and K index, where you're trying to work, and the array will adjust as a unit to optimize everything for it!  Next, interface it with your logging software and when you type in a callsign prefix, zip-zip, it optimizes quickly for that individual station!  Or enter the "all Europe" option and, without further "handling," it keeps optimizing the stack, during the entire opening, for "all Europe," all "in the background" without interrupting anything the operator is doing.  Whoa baby!

73 - Rich, KE3Q
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Howard Klein 
  To: wsio-alp7 at xemaps.com 
  Cc: towertalk at contesting.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:58 AM
  Subject: Re: FW: RE: [TowerTalk] SteppIR VS Force 12


  What I do is model the STACK for the parameters I am most interested in, 
  usually that is for max gain. I then adjust the elements to those physical 
  lengths. The software does not know that there is a stack so I must adjust 
  each antenna individually. The actual procedure is a bit more complex 
  involving several steps but once recorded to memory it requires only a quick 
  push of a button.

  Howard..K2HK

  ----Original Message Follows----
  From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>

  I'm curious.  Generally speaking, yagis in a stack need to be optimized for 
  that use, particularly to get the best F/B ratio out of them.  Does the 
  SteppIR software "know" that your antennas are in a stack, or is it just 
  doing what it knows how to do with each antenna as a separate entity?

  73, Pete N4ZR
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