I have always been amused by the antenna adverts that say things like "I
worked 100 countries in 6 hours" or some such nonsense.
Those type ads never give radiation patterns or any other meaningful
data that can be used to compare with other antennas.
That does not mean that the ads were mis-leading, but the fact that
however many contacts were made is really meaningless.
The fact is that any antenna will radiate and can make contacts unless
it is rolled up and sitting on a shelf in the basement.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 2/14/2013 4:03 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:
Yes sure...
Kurt N. Sterba who once wrote an article in World Radio about how he connected
two shopping carts to the end of his coax and worked the world.
So working this or that is very unimpressive. Have you ever been he a QSO and
turned the power down from a 100 watts to 1 watt and were still Q5?
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