[TowerTalk] Field Strength comparison

[Ken Boasi]

I think K1TTT did exactly that to verify patterns on his stacks...it was pretty interesting. His report is probably up on his website somewhere.  

73, Ken N2ZN



> On Sep 4, 2021, at 9:29 PM, Lux, Jim <jim at luxfamily.com> wrote:
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> On 9/4/21 5:19 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
>> GE Stan,
>> 
>> I have absolutely no hard engineering facts for you, other than to say that
>> when I installed my 4-squares a few years ago, I located a small signal
>> source about 200' away from all the arrays and made RX measurements with the
>> arrays and my IC-7410.  I seemed to have very good results at this 200'
>> distance from a vertical and a bunch of my 4-squares.
>> 
>> I would've rather had 300' or 400', or even 700' but that would've meant
>> locating my signal source on someone else's land and I didn't want to do
>> that, for various reasons. (bringing attention to my hobby as one reason)
>> 
>> I posted results here, if it's worth anything to you.
>> 
>> Re: [TowerTalk] Wire 4-squares - they work ! (long) (GAIN?) (contesting.com)
>> <http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/Towertalk/2016-10/msg00213.html>
>> 
>>  
>> GL and thanks for all the contest Q's !
>> 
>>  
>> Mike VE9AA
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> These days, putting a source on a UAV would be super practical.. And getting 1000 ft away would be easy.
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