[TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Bob,

If you want a good test, run it as a blind test.

Get yourself a two position switch and ask someone else to connect the coaxes from the two antennas to the switch, and simply number the
switch positions as 1 and 2.  Then run your tests without knowing which
antenna is connected to each position.  This blind procedure will
remove the personal bias that we have to our favorite or newest antenna.

73
Frank
W3LPL

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:45:51 -0400
>From: "Bob Maser" <bmaser at tampabay.rr.com>  
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son  
>To: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm at telia.com>
>Cc: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
>
>Jim, you are right.  What I plan to do is put up a 205BA and then compare it 
>with a 4 element SteppIR.  (I won't tell anyone that I am only using 4 of 
>the elements.  Let's keep it a secret, OK?).  Yagi performance is a function 
>of boom length, not the number of elements.
>
>Bob
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm at telia.com>
>Cc: <TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:36 AM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son
>
>
>>I don´t expect anything however it´s totally wrong calling that
>> antenna a 204BA, it´s something else but no 204BA, it´s a "former"
>> 204BA.
>>
>> /Jim SM2EKM
>> ------------------
>> Bob Maser wrote:
>>> Surely you don't expect a 4 element on a 26 foot boom to be competition
>>> for a 4 element SteppIR on a 32 or 34 foot , do you?  I was just
>>> leveling the playing field by taking the boom from a 205BA and taking
>>> away one of the directors.
>>>
>>> The day that some company comes out with an antenna that can vary the
>>> length of the elements and change spacings between the elements, then I
>>> will consider buying one,
>>>
>>> Bob W6TR
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm at telia.com>
>>> Cc: <TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:15 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son
>>>
>>>
>>>> However then it´s NO 204BA any more!
>>>>
>>>> / 73 Jim
>>>> -------------
>>>> Bob Maser wrote:
>>>>> That's easy to do.  Take a 5 element 205BA, remove one of the 
>>>>> directors,
>>>>> run the YO antenna modeling program using the 34 foot boom and, viola,
>>>>> you have a 4 element beam on a 34 foot boom.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob W6TR
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra at sasktel.net>
>>>>> To: <TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:03 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> The HyGain 204BA has a 26 ft boom, the 205BA has a 34 ft boom.
>>>>>> Tell us more about your 204BA on a 34 ft boom?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After spending all that money for a SteppIr antenna, nobody's gonna
>>>>>> call
>>>>>>
>>>>>> their kid ugly.  I am putting up a 4 element HyGain 204BA on a 34 foot
>>>>>> boom.
>>>>>> Can't wait to find me a horse race with a SteppIr!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bob  W6TR
>>>>>>
>>
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