[TowerTalk] JK 402 versus CC XM-240

[Jim Brown]

Jeff,

Your understanding is the same as mine, and your earlier post about 
vertical pattern is also right on. I'm simply observing the critical 
importance of soil quality on the gain (and vertical pattern) of 
vertical antennas.  At any given QTH, and for any given antenna farm, 
these are the things that are best learned from lots of A/B comparisons 
of antennas under different conditions. We know, for example, that paths 
exist at different vertical angles under different propagation 
conditions. The path to a given DX location may be low angle at one time 
and higher angle at another time.

73, Jim

On 2/27/2019 12:24 AM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> Jim I don't think that Tim is saying the 4sq is 6 dB better than his 
> beams.  I read that as a 4sq is around 6dB of gain on a model. Maybe 
> I'm reading that wrong.  Pretty sure if it was 6 dB better than a set 
> of tall stacks the entire world would be running 4sq on 40m and few 
> would be using beams.