Hi,
I agree with Mike that you can't compare antenna performance with a station
who is hundreds of miles away, but, OTOH, I still remember (in those times
I was member of YU1EXY crew) how loud VE3BMV was on 15 comparing with
another VE signals #and# US big guns...
Mirko, S57AD
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Tope <W4EF@dellroy.com>
To: <K3BU@aol.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Re: [Towertalk] Quad vs Yagi
>
> > My Razors outperformed stacked arrays at old W2PV, proof in contest
> results
> > and many times hearing pileups of Eu stations that W2PV was not
responding
> to.
> >
>
> Yuri, I am curious. Have you ever compared your single band scores with
the
> equivalent W2PV band scores with and without all of those 2 point W's
> removed
> from your score? Did you ever go head to head with W2PV in the ARRL DX
> contest where VE's don't get points for W's.
>
> Also, do you think its fair to compare antenna performance with a station
> who
> is hundreds of miles away? I often hear W6KP in Anza running euro's on 15
> meters
> that I can't hear at W6UE in Pasadena. We are both using computer
optimized
> long
> boom monoband yagis. What does that prove? It proves that W6KP is in a
quiet
> mountain top location and further south from me. Does it prove his antenna
> is
> "better" than mine? I hardly think so.
>
> 73 de Mike, W4EF.........................................................
>
>
>
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