[TowerTalk] Change in SWR

[Doug Scribner]

GM,

While all of this makes for very interesting reading, NONE of it addresses 
my original post as to where I might start looking for a reason behind an 
SWR CHANGE on one band of a multi-band yagi.

To those who offered constructive advice both here and directly, I thank you 
very much!

To the others, there are a couple of threads over on the CQ-Contest 
reflector concerning CQWW scoring that need more input...

Doug - K1ZO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt at mymts.net>
To: <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Change in SWR


> Yup. And I've broken through mondo pileups on DX stations first call with 
> my
> MA5B at 30 feet. I've had folk in SS say I'm the loudest guy they hear. 
> One
> guy in California said I was 40 over s9, and I was using a 20m Hamstick 
> five
> feet in the air with one counterpoise.
>
> I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean either is a better antenna than a KC1XX
> stack.
>
> Guys have worked lots of DX with Isotron loops, yet you don't see k4xs
> rushing to put a bunch up his towers. Lots of people work lots of stuff on
> half-slopers, yet I don't think anyone can dispute the engineering that 
> says
> it's a bad design, even if the odd blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut.
>
> The success you may or may not have with an antenna has a lot of variables
> behind it. To say that Honor Roll on a Pro67b means it's a better antenna
> than a C31XR is quite a stretch.
>
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
>
>
> On 12/3/13 8:46 PM, "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/3/2013 6:24 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
>>> Working a lot of countries is no
>>> indication of an antenna's performance.
>>
>> Right. Over a period of a year or so, I have 125 countries worked QRP.
>> N6BT has often talked about working all continents in a relatively short
>> period of time on a light bulb.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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