That is exactly what I did, with the help of a friend a reasonable distance away with a reasonable S-meter, repeated antenna swapping, and a little help from skimmers on the RBN for control. I'm pretty sure the difference is real. I'd rather carry a lightweight telescopic pole with the means to guy it, and use an inverted-V dipole than trust that loaded vertical to get me contacts.
On Tue 21 Jul Wes (N7WS) wrote: > In other words, take measurements of antenna one, remove it and > replace it with antenna two and note the change. Any other comparison > is uncontrolled and suspect. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
