[TowerTalk] TowerTalk If you had a choice

[Jim Brown]

On 10/16/2012 7:08 AM, K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
> According to our landmark on-the-air tribander  test, the Mosley PRO
> antennas underperformed the competition. In one case, it  even had negative gain
> on one band. I'd suggest any antenna over a Mosley.
>   

I bought the fine reports that documented the tri-bander tests and the 
vertical tests.  It should be noted that the tests described were 
examples of classic good engineering practice, rigorously done in a very 
well controlled setup, and carefully documented. N0AX and K7LXC were  
the fine engineers who did the work.

I would place FAR more value on these tests than on ANY anecdotal 
reports of on-air performance involving propagation, no matter how much 
DX the guy worked. The reason is simple -- propagation varies widely 
with time, and the effects of propagation overwhelm (by at least 30dB) 
the relatively small differences between one antenna and another (6 dB 
or so).

73, Jim K9YC