At 2/20/2007 05:39, you wrote: >Could never understand why a Diamond long 18 ft dual band antenna has >about 8 dbd on VHF/11 dbd on UHF when a commerical antenna like the >Super Station Master or DB224 has 6 db. Think the commerical people >know why, not, hi.
The Diamond specs are actually dBi, not dBd. If they claim dBd, it's false advertising. Someday if I find one torn apart I'll build a model of it in NEC-Win to prove it. >QST for a long time refused to print gain specs in the ads for they >knew most was smoke. Yes, but not publishing gain specs for antennas is sort of like not publishing power ratings for amplifiers or amperage ratings for 12 V power supplies. Bob NO6B
