[TowerTalk] antenna choices for K4XS

[Kelly Taylor]

At various points over this thread, people have written the following:

> 
>KK9A: 
I have never owned a Mosley but I recall reading that they use some unique
> feeding method and it is the reason that no choke is required.  Is this
> correct?

> 
N0AX:
> 
>> The main issue with the Mosley PRO antennas we tested was on 10 meters
>> where gain and pattern were definitely below spec.  It is quite possible
>> that the manual's instruction not to use a balun at the feed point
>> allowed significant feed line interaction to the point of upsetting the
>> radiation pattern.  All other antennas did use a ferrite bead balun made
>> by Force 12.  We did not test the Mosleys with and without a balun -
>> there wasn't enough time and energy.
> 
> And 

> K5GO:
> For W4TV......While taking a huge amount of time and effort to do "two,
> widely respected "scientific" studies" of TEN different triband antennas in
order to publish a report that is still being sold sixteen years later,
according to N0AX there "wasn't enough time and energy" to put a choke or balun
on even one Mosley antenna when feedline radiation would be or was suspect in
causing the performance to be less than that of a dipole that DID have a
feedline choke installed.   As VE7RF would say...WTF?
> 

A few observations: Wasn't the point of the K7LXC/N0AX report to provide a
solid comparison of what the average amateur could expect to get for his/her
money? How many "average" hams are going to look past Mosley's
baffle-them-with-bullcrap of not needing a balun, especially if they've been
schooled in the K7LXC Prime Directive?

As well, if you have to mess with a new antenna out of the box to get it to
work right, is it really a good design? Clearly, it appears they can benefit
from a balun.

73, kelly
ve4xt