To set the record straight: Team Vertical did own the WORLD RECORD for M/M in 1998. Period. Don't forget, this was from 2 point land! Can I help it if the CQWW guys can't get it right? If you look to
... ... If anyone would calculate the M/M category "Maximum result with Minimum effort", the Team Vertical is a clean sweep champ. PJ9* is clearly at the other end. But the today's records will beco
Amen to what Kenny writes. Team Vertical, in 1998 CQ WW CW M/M absolutely kicked our can at our T I 1 C M/M, with all our big yagi's and quads. Some of us have yet to recover from that pasting.......
I respectfully disagree. Our results were only possible because we did not listen to conventional wisdom. The models fully support that if you want to win contests on a DXpedition, the only choice i
I have no knowledge of how much power CN8WW was running. But... they were able to hear me on 80 and 160 (multiple times on each band). I've never run more than 1kw. They were doing *something* right.
beat a 10m 4square over salt water. Actually, 10m was the only band that TI1C beat 6Y2A on. On all the other bands, we easily beat them, and they were using some very large arrays on all other bands.
I challenge anyone to set up 2 or three golf club bags full of verticals over rocky soil in central Texas and out perform towers with Yagis at the same location. Yes verticals in a salt water marsh w
Agreed Rusty, A few years ago we were at VP5 using a Butternut 40 meter vertical whose base was actually at the waters edge. The antenna was a bomb! Great runs/pileups to JA in the mornings on 40 and
over rocky soil in central Texas and out perform towers with Yagis at the same location. Yes verticals in a salt water marsh work wonderfully, but that does not lead to a conclusion that a vertical o
Horizontal dipole needs 0,4 wavelength height in order to radiate at low angles while verticals achieve that with 0,25 or even less! Present aluminum technology puts a practical border for Yagi advan
But you ain't heard nothing like the pileup with a vertical 4 inches above sea level, at sea, on top of the snorkel mast, "K4CSY, Maritime Mobile, submerged beneath the Atlantic" from the USS TUSK SS
Hey Yuri, you know what might be fun? How about a stack of Yagis on some reasonable sized band, such as 15, 20, or 40, used in a contest, alongside an appropriately scaled set of phased verticals in
reasonable sized band, such as 15, 20, or 40, used in a contest, alongside an appropriately scaled set of phased verticals in essentially the same location, operated by multi-ops going at it full bor
I'm confused - is the debate whether verticals or yagis makes you a better operator in the contest, or is the debate whether verticals or yagis give you stronger transmitted and received signal stren
operators and equipment is going to win. It's a game, and you can stack the odds (no pun intended), but you still can't predict the outcome with certainty!<< As usual with postings, they tend to drif
from [KEN SILVERMAN] Hi Ken, Nah, you are right, they don't work! Also people talking about apples are right. In any case I will keep my bananas (verticals), instead of apples, on the beach of Crete