[TowerTalk] Tuners

[David Gilbert]

You're getting your tail feathers in a knot for no good reason.

1.  I'll bet very few of your wire antennas fit the class of antennas 
Rick described.
2.  What's your point about a receiver?  20db down from everyone else is 
20db down from everyone else ... it doesn't have anything to do with the 
receiver.
3.  If it took you 59 years to get 327 countries confirmed I don't think 
you're making a very good argument.  The proof would be how well you 
stack up against other stations in a contest or similar short term 
comparison.

Please don't get me wrong ... I used verticals and low wire antennas in 
an antenna restricted area for many, many years, and most of them were 
fed through a well built home brew antenna tuner.  There were fairly 
efficient because I made an effort to make them so, worked reasonably 
well when driven with a kilowatt, and I worked a lot of stuff with 
them.  None of them held a candle to even a simple decently sized dipole 
on a tower, though, such as you likely have.  And all of them were 
better than the kind of stuff Rick is talking about.

Dave   AB7E





On 11/27/2010 10:09 PM, Tommy Alderman wrote:
> Wow Rick! That is really amazing? You ever think of getting a decent
> receiver?
>
> For the past 59 years I have used a 'tuner' and wires, but alas, using wire
> antennas and I've only got 327 countries confirmed? Do you think if I get a
> REAL antenna I could make the honor roll?
>
> 73 Rick,
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
>
>
> VK1OD did a nice analysis.  Unfortunately, many hams are simply
> in a mode of "don't bother me with facts".  They desperately want to
> believe in the paradigm of a tuner in the shack and a simple all band
> antenna at the other end of the line, such as a plain vertical conductor,
> or a random wire, or a "loop skywire", a "G5RV," or some sort of "Windom"
> antenna.  All continue to live on in ham folklore.  I work them
> all the time in contests; they are the stations that are ~20 dB down from
> even a decent QRP or mobile station.  That is if I can copy them at all.
>
> Rick N6RK
>
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