[TowerTalk] monobanders vs. multibanders

[Jim Jarvis]

Carl wrote:

To this day I doubt if any multiband yagi is as good as monobanders on equal
boom lengths. Something is missing with the computer analysis in the losses,
interaction or both.  Carl KM1H

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I think the current crop of "3-monobanders on a common boom" no-trap
tribanders
are probably a wash with a monobander on an equivalent boom.  Trapped
antennas
are another matter.   The KT34A was arguably the best small tribander
around,
and frankly, in an honest A/B test, it was no better than an LPDA, which was
effectively a 2 element antenna, on any given band.  (parameter of choice,
signal strength @ 3000 miles.  CA and EU) I wasn't able to perform a good
A/B test between the LPDA and my steppIR, but felt I was getting through
more
on first-call with the latter.

Antennas are compromises.  Life requires that we make our own compromises.
(I shudda bought Dean Straw's NH place, when I had the chance...those were
mighty stacks!)

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On the broader topic of Mosely bashing....can we return to civil discourse,
please?  Regardless of the merits of anyone's position, this ad-hominem
bickering is inappropriate and frankly, disturbing.

Thank you.

N2EA
Jim Jarvis, President
The Morse Group, LLC
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