[TowerTalk] Tower or new Radio

[Mark Robinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wilson Lamb" <infomet at embarqmail.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, 15 July, 2011 5:27 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower or new Radio


> Tower tower Tower!!
> The radio gets you nothing.
> The tower, at least 10dB!!
> Wilson
> W4BOH
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My G5RV is no slouch but on 20m I get reports that my signal is 20 to 30 dB 
stronger on the beam. The beam is high, so there is not just antenna gain 
but radiation angle involved as well I think.

No contest.....tower and beam always.


Mark N1UK