FW: RE: [TowerTalk] SteppIR VS Force 12

[on4kj]

  I smell sience fiction, and free running brains.....HI HI............Time
to change definition of Amateur Radio....!!!!!!!!

  Jos on4kj

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "RICHARD BOYD" <ke3q at msn.com>
  To: <rf at xemaps.com>; <wsio-alp7 at xemaps.com>
  Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
  Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:15 PM
  Subject: Re: FW: RE: [TowerTalk] SteppIR VS Force 12


  > 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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