[TowerTalk] Laws of Physics Repealed!

[Jim Hargrave]

>> There are many claims about many antennas out there which do
>> not meet the truth but as mentioned in one post, even light bulb
>> can radiate.

And so do "bedsprings" attached to an ART-13 transmitter.  

73, Jim - w5ifp at gvtc.com

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On
>> Behalf Of Daniel Danny Horvat
>> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 8:50 AM
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Laws of Physics Repealed!
>> 
>> Roger,
>> 
>> There is no R6 antenna, there is a R-6000 antenna which I
designed
>> for Cushcraft followed by R8 antenna which was covered in K7LXC &
>> N0AX report with high score.
>> 
>> MFJ/HyGain did copy the design just few months after R6000 was
>> advertised and they implemented their known series LC resonators
>> instead  parallel LC traps.
>> 
>> I was against implementing a 80m on R8 vertical back then (1998)
>> due low efficiency and narrow bandwidth. MFJ has no problem to
>> claim anything just to sell.
>> 
>> Verticals,  R5/R7 R6000 R8 and also clones AV620, AV640 are IMO
>> better than
>> 43 foot verticals or even worse CHA250 and clone verticals.
>> There are number of people having 300 plus DXCC countries done
>> with these verticals and they found them great for small and no
>> radial field antennas.
>> 
>> There are many claims about many antennas out there which do
>> not meet the truth but as mentioned in one post, even light bulb
>> can radiate.
>> 
>> 73 Danny N4EXA aka E73M
>> 
>> 
>> ---------------------------------
>> Danny Horvat,  E73M
>> Antennas & Accessories
>> www.MyAntennas.com
>> 
>> 
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 04:59:35 -0400
>> From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Laws of Physics Repealed!
>> Message-ID: <562B4877.70505 at tm.net>
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>> 
>> While you're at it look up Hy-Gain
>> 
>> Then look up the designer of the Hy-Gain AV series and the
>> Cushcraft R series.  There is a reason they look so much alike.
But
>> why did Cushcraft keep a couple traps?  Just to make it look
>> different?  Reduce efficiency just to look different?
>> 
>> It's like trying to find the same applications in Win 10 that
were in
>> Win 7.
>> They just reorganized it to look different?  You really need to
hunt
>> to find some of that stuff.
>> 
>> It's basically the same speed with more annoying adds and
>> programs that phone home.
>> 
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Roger  (K8RI)
>> 
>> 
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