[TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS

[Mike Ryan]

Jim, I suppose going any further on this discussion, just looks like a no 
win situation. No one is disputing the work that K7LXC and N0AX or K4XS (who 
has done more to study antennas, take off angles, etc than anyone I know 
since he jumps around the globe like a ping pong ball on the ocean, and 
always ending up with a killer station) have done or that it isn't the 
bottom line or the last word. On the other hand, when people have their 
minds made up....they are just made up.  Some of that is just because they 
read what someone else has said. The point I was making about the Mosley is 
that the antenna, is working for the guy.  I/you/we all hear all the time 
how well antennas are working for this guy and that...that what they have is 
the greatest antenna they have every had. But that in some cases is because 
it has been the ONLY antenna they have ever had. Not in the case for the op 
who now has a Mosley. But he also has little money to spend and I felt that 
in the spirit of ham radio (blah blah) that I would help him, put it up, and 
get him back on the air. Now, he had a Mosley antenna sitting there...got it 
very reasonably priced and did not have to pay shipping....that's two bonus 
points in my mind.  It is now sitting on his tower because he is too old to 
climb or to crank and I am neither.
       Jeff (AC0C) made the point, and I guess to summarize, that on any 
given Sunday, given the right conditions, the phase of the moon, the rise of 
the tide, and the blink of an eye one can work dx on about anything.  I 
interjected, 'even a Mosley' as is the case.  I have been fortunate enough 
to use something different I suppose and would say that I'm quite satisfied 
with my station considering. Were that I had a Mosley antenna, perhaps not. 
I guess it would depend on the moon, etc. In any event I am not going to 
bash or belittle anyone for what they are able to get up in the air, it may 
be only worth so much to do it in the first place, and if in fact would be 
worth more, perhaps they couldn't afford to do it at all.
I hope you enjoy what you have in any event.  '73, Mike

-----Original Message----- 
From: D. Scott MacKenzie
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:15 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS

That is why I gave up - my antennas were not worthy.  I don't have multiple
towers, with multiple wavelength mono-banders or stacked Steppers.  So I
figure that there was little point of continuing regardless of my DXCC
total.

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Brown
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 6:30 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS

On Sun,4/12/2015 2:39 PM, Mike Ryan wrote:
> all the bashing that has been going on lately about Mosley Antennas
> fits in well right here. My retired friend who is on a budget, bought
> a used  Mosley TA53 ( I think that is the correct model).

Advice based on the carefully done measurements by K7LXC and N0AX is NOT
bashing -- it is based on FACTS.

Steve and Ward documented their work very carefully and thoroughly, and
published it as a bound report. They also did a study of HF verticals. I
bought both reports. I learned a LOT about both the antenna performance
AND some technical analysis of WHY things performed as they did.

Joe, W4TV bought the reports too -- that's the basis of his comments.

Go to K7LXC's Champion Radio Products website. About $20 each as I
recall. And while you're there, also buy N6BT's excellent A Ray Of Light
book on antennas.

73, Jim K9YC


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