[TowerTalk] Barker & Williamson Model AC - 1.8 - 30 Antenna

[David Gilbert]

You do realize that's an eHam link, right?  A piece of rusty rebar with 
an SO-239 glued to it could get a rave review there.

A half dozen years ago I did a fairly extensive survey of reviews there 
on several different items.  I probably looked at over 1,500 reviews on 
a lot of products ... I was simply curious what kinds of things got 5's 
and which ones got 0's and 1's.  In general, even the worst pieces of 
crap got 4's and 5's.  The 0's and 1's were almost exclusively given for 
bad service, typically out of spite more than anything else.

Their reviews are almost meaningless unless you find the rare one that 
actually includes some comparison data and sounds like it comes from 
somebody that has a clue what they're talking about.

Dave   AB7E



On 1/4/2016 8:47 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> All I could find was a sketch so I'm not sure how it works. Amazingly the
> antenna has great reviews:  http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1550
>
> John KK9A
>
> To:	towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject:	Re: [TowerTalk] Barker & Williamson Model AC - 1.8 - 30
> Antenna
> From:	Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Reply-to:	jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
> Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 17:32:29 -0800
>
> I just looked at this "antenna" on the Universal Radio website. It's a lousy
> excuse for an antenna -- in addition to the loss in that big resistor, the
> connection between those two ground rods is also a big resistor. And because
> it's low, there's even more loss, and most of what little it does radiate
> goes straight up.
>
> To the original poster -- toss this piece of crap in the trash, buy a copy
> of the ARRL Antenna Book, some #14 wire at the big box store, a center
> insulator and end insulators from the Wireman, and make yourself a REAL
> antenna.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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