Yes but 20 dB better then a 5 el Telerex Yagi, get real!
de Jim SM2EKM
PS: Back in the early seventies competition was a far
cry from what it is today.
In Sweden there where hardly no big antennas, just 3
banders. In 1973 I put up a 6 el 20 Yagi on 55 ft boom
and that thing was a big thing back then, you had to go
600 miles to the south in Sweden to find something of
equal size, down to SM5BLA since he had some bigger
antennas, however BLA always cllaimed to have very
tall towers but instead they where about half as high as
he claimed, makes me think about the razor claim.
Also people runing 500 - 1000W was considered runing
high power, these days runing high power means 5 - 10
kW. As one did sing once "times are a changeing", so
belive me competition was no nothing back then compared
to whats going on these days
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Ämne: [TowerTalk] VE3BMV Razor beams
I can only speak from seeing the results of the K3BU(VE3BMV) Razor
beams.
Yuri blew away the competition
on the single band he selected to compete in the CQ WW 20 years ago.
The
razor beam is a Quagi on a long boom.
Yuri put these up special for the contest. I can attest to the
problems
involved as in 1970 CQ WPX SSB I used a 7 el 10 meter beam
from the first issue of Ham radio magazine. With the beam at 70' I was
the
only stateside signal into Northern EU for hours on end
(quoting SM5BLA). I put the beam up just for the contest...and its work
especially if doing alone as Yuri did.
I'll bet his razor beams (Quagi) had outstanding gain for the boom
length.
73 Dave K4JRB
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