Dave And All,
Hmmm! I don't quite understand that statement. Why would you worry about every dB at your home station but not necessarily be concerned on a portable setup??? I guess maybe you are saying that, when operating portable, just get the best antenna possible as opposed to a lesser one. Well, that's ideally true, but "you do with what you got"! Whatever antenna you might have for portable use, you want to squeeze every dB you can out of it! I tend to think it could be even more important when operating portable since you already apt to be weaker, and that last dB may be the one that gets you heard! Home station operators might actually ignore such issues since they may already be more than loud enough to be heard. QRP/portable operators tend to not have that luxury. Dave W7AQK ------------------------------------------------- From: David Gilbert <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Doesn't much matter.? You're still talking a 3 dB difference at most (50 feet vs 30 feet), and while I will be the first to argue the benefit of every single dB for normal station operation (see http://www.ab7e.com/weak_signal/mdd.html), I don't understand the angxt over that 3 dB for portable operation.? If that's actually a concern, bring a better antenna. 73, Dave?? AB7E ______________________________________________________________ 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]
