[TowerTalk] Change in SWR

[Patrick Greenlee]

Gurus and high priests are less interested in helping you than establishing 
and maintaining zeal in the hearts of their acolytes and maintaining 
doctrinal purity.  Incessant arguments regarding the number of angels 
dancing on the head of a pin should be quieted by using a loupe and counting 
them.

I don't think I'm blind, just visually impaired but I seem to find lots of 
nuts.

Patrick AF5CK

-----Original Message----- 
From: Doug Scribner
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 7:12 AM
To: Towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Change in SWR

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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