[TowerTalk] Remote Tuner with ZS66BKW or OCF Dipole

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,7/27/2015 6:31 AM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
> I don't do many A-B comparisons between the OCF dipole and the 
> vertical anymore, having seen the results so many times before. Rarely 
> does the dipole win a shootout by much margin.  results are close but 
> the vertical usually does a little better.  One solid exception is 
> contacting a friend 120 air miles away.  Sorry, senior moment (CRS), I 
> don't recall the band but the OCF worked him well and the vertical was 
> useless.  We chalked it up to takeoff angle. This result is repeatable. 

Not surprising. See http://k9yc.com/VertOrHorizontal-Slides.pdf

The problem with OCF dipoles is that you can't choke them to kill the RX 
noise.

73, Jim