[TowerTalk] Fwd: Return on investment (golden rules) for antenna installations

[Hans Hammarquist]

I wonder, I believe there are many other solutions to give "maximum gain" and "louder signals" than yagi antennae if it is only the gain that counts. I was,early in my time at this hobby that the more gain you got the better. I built more than one type of "high gain" antenna configurations without getting even close to the "big guys". Isn't it just as important that you can hear the other guys out there through all the QRM and QRN that is out there. I have found that a lousy yagi or quad with a reasonable F/B ratio is better than a better gain antenna.


Correct me if I'm wrong.


Hans -N2JFS



-----Original Message-----
From: dw <bw_dw at fastmail.fm>
To: towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, Jan 10, 2016 9:53 am
Subject: [TowerTalk] Return on investment (golden rules) for antenna installations

I read an interesting article in eham where EZNEC was used to compare a
specific commercial beam to a dipole.
I guess I was a little surprised at the results.
The article is here.

http://www.eham.net/articles/35421

It goes to the question of whether or not a given antenna solution
represents an improvement significant enough to warrant investment.
I wonder how others formulate return on investment considerations.
Perhaps years of experience, and some "been-there-done-that", have
allowed you to develop some golden-rules about antennas?

 
-- 
 Bw_dw at fastmail.net

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