Good comment, Ed. We all depend on our reputations as competent technical people that we can deliver the best product or service reasonable. Proper or deficient equipment can make or break (respectively) the quality of our well-intended work. Hence, knowledge of any weaknesses in a particular piece of equipment (in this case, an antenna) can at least allow us to investigate and compensate for the known weakness.
A potential benefit of reporting anomalies with a particular piece of equipment is the bringing forth of comments from the (defending) manufacturer. The manufacturers normally will have performed exhaustive analysis and corroborative characterization on a given antenna during its development phase, but seldom will the users get access to that data unless the need to publish it arises. We may all learn how to identify more subtle anomalies, fix them, or compensate for them. I haven't noticed any antenna vendors jumping into the discussion on antenna characteristics, and we all know they read this forum daily. How about it, guys? Mike Conn Mikon Consulting
