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[TowerTalk] Re: Optimum Height for High Band Antennas

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: Optimum Height for High Band Antennas
From: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:46:12 +0800
K7LXC wrote: 
>    Second, IMO the key to contesting station success on ANY band is to 
>have a choice of antennas. One will generally be better than the other 
>at some time and it's not always the same one. Sometimes it's the OTHER 
>one!
> 
>      Viva la flexibility.
> 
> 73,  Steve  K7LXC

How true.  I put up a 2 element delta loop beaming east for the 10 meter 
contest.  I also put up a bi-square oreiented NW-SE for the JA's.  
Sometimes on the east coast stations, the delta loop was better, and 
sometimes the bi-square was better.  I could work stations on the loop 
for a while, and when things slowed down, switch to the other antenna and 
things would pick up again.  Strange!!!! 73 and Merry Christmas
Tom

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