Sorry Rick, Please let me explain, doing a antenna substitution works only in the following situations. 1. Both antennas are designed to have patterns similar in the direction of the receiving station or.2. Both antennas have the same TOA to the receiving station or3. Both antennas had the same amount of delivered power to the antenna or
And I could go on. The test you did is a nice comfort feeling one but does not tell you why one works better that the other one. IMHO Mel, K6KBE From: Rick M0LEP <m0...@hewett.org> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Miniature self-supporting HF antennas 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to farrerfo...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com