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[TowerTalk] RE: WX7M's 16 el 20M Yagi modeled

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Subject: [TowerTalk] RE: WX7M's 16 el 20M Yagi modeled
From: K4OJ@aol.com (K4OJ@aol.com)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 07:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
....the bottom line appears to be that this indeed is a great conversation
piece of an antenna....but, I wonder if such a long boom antenna is worth a
damn when suddenly the path to EU isskewed / over North
Africa...............neat as hell for the DXer.....but probably NOT a dream
antenna for the contester, the unwritten definition of which includes the
ability to react to the odd/non-routine path and monopolize on his ability to
make it work - remember about a sunspot cycle ago when almost no-one was
working EU in the DX test except a couple of guys with nice numbers, who were
bright enough to check out the long path, and it was "wide open"....

A novelty, and sure it is cool as hell, but this guy had better have a TH6 or
whatever backup for when condx aren't what they are "supposed" to be!

gm

k4oj

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