[UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB 10m SO Unassisted : G3ZQH

[Darren Collins (G0TSM)]

My 5 ele Yagi is 4dB up on my Hexbeam (according to Yaesu's calibration 
of my S-meter). The noise floor on the Hexbeam is a lot higher and 
switching from Hex to yagi is fascinating when pointing and shooting as 
the Yagi just copies callers that are unreadable on the Hexbeam. 
Incidentally a 4 ele yagi at 25ft was exactly the same on signals as the 
Hexbeam up at 53ft to the 10M wire but had a slightly lower noise floor.

73 Darren G0TSM

On 29/10/2012 20:26, G3ZQH wrote:
> Next year if 10m is still open, I
> might put up a single band yagi because I think the hexbeam (although a good
> 5 band antenna) is quite limited in performance on 10m. I could tell when I
> was spotted on the cluster- my rate suddenly shot up to 350+/h for a few
> minutes but then rapidly declined!
>
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