[TowerTalk] 2 identical antennas

[RICHARD BOYD]

The lower one will tend to be better (you will be louder) for closer in 
things and the higher one will tend to be better for farther away things.

A low tribander, even lower than 65', can be very good for within-the-U.S. 
QSOs, and to the Caribbean from the U.S., and even to Europe at times.

The higher one can make it much harder to work within-the-U.S. QSOs.  I have 
often noticed (with a big yagi at 120' or more) waiting in a pileup for 10 
minutes for something in the Caribbean, and everyone with a tribander on a 
chimney mount getting through before me.

Flip side, I have busted a pileup to Asia (from W3, East Coast U.S.) pretty 
easily (once in a while anyway), with a yagi 100' or more up.  I pretty 
clearly remember when XX (Macao) came on the air for the last 10 minutes of 
a CQWW, on 20 phone, first time XX had been on all weekend.  Big pileup, all 
"the big boys," favoring West Coast U.S. over East Coast U.S. but I got 
through pretty quickly with a TH-6 at 100'.  I was one of the few East Coast 
stations to get through.

73 - Rich, KE3Q


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AI9L" <ai9l at core.com>
To: "TOWER TALK" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] 2 identical antennas


what would the difference be between two tri band beams one at 65 feet and 1 
at 110 feet if the beams were both exactly the same
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