I heartily concur with Mike. Being a "one antenna guy", my Mosley Pro57B
is at 40 feet, as high as I can reasonably place it given my extreme
weather conditions (125 mph gusts and very heavy icing). With this
placement, I've worked 296 countries in about 24 months. I yield
(temporarily at least) to Mike (below), who has 297 countries. In my case,
I also live on the side of a mountain overlooking the ocean at 1200
feet...and that helps too! ;-)
73,
Joe
WL7M
At 04:40 PM 11-01-02, Michael Watts wrote:
>I, for one, do not doubt that lower antennas are at times better than high
>ones. I have done
>experiments with my crankup tower that have convinced me.
>
>But that doesn't seem like the relevant point unless you are able to put
>up lots of different
>antennas. For the "one or a small number of antennas" crowd, isn't the
>relevant question for any
>given antenna height: "What percentage of the time will I have the best
>performance to the places
>in the world that I most care about?"
>
>If a lower antenna is better only in some small percentage of cases, then
>it's not wise to advise
>a one antenna guy to put the antenna lower. There seems to be substantial
>agreement that higher
>antennas perform better a larger percentage of the time than lower
>ones. Is this not true? If
>you had only one antenna, would you put it lower or higher?
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