"..I wonder if he had the phasing wrong?!
Again - the difference is HEIGHT - not gain! "....
"...Modeling will show at times 10 - 20 db difference - a vast
amount more than the difference in gain between the two. ..."
RIGHT. There is much more variation in the effect of height than there
is in gain difference between individual antennas. When you put a
single antenna at great height, the nulls may be down from the peaks by
as much as 20 dB. When you compare gain differences between typical
antennas you may only have 2 to 3 dB.
These nulls also happen with a stack, but if you do the stack correctly,
the nulls will fall at an angle higher than the arrival angle for most
of the signals on the band. Another big player in the stack game is your
local terrain. If you do not live over flat land, the optimum stacking
arrangement can vary a lot from the optimum stack over flat land. If you
have HFTA, you can see this effect. You can even have a terrain where a
stack is not better than a single antenna with the same number of total
elements. This is never true over flat land. (I happen to have one of
those terrains, and your stack of 121/81/41 at my location would be
poor, although over flat ground it is a good one.)
It's fun to play with HFTA and see what different stacking arrangements
do. For anyone planning a stack, running it through HFTA before building
it is probably the most worth while thing you can do.
Jerry, K4SAV
StellarCAT wrote:
>I wonder if he had the phasing wrong?!
>
>Again - the difference is HEIGHT - not gain! I have heard of
>people that have stacked the C3's and have had excellent results
>even though they only have 2 elements per band.
>
>The C31should be and I am sure is a couple db stronger than the
>C3 on 20 and more on 10 and 15 - they are full sized elements so
>no reason to think otherwise. But as many know simple beams will
>often beat out long boom yagis when the smaller antenna just
>happens to be at the right height for the incoming angle.
>Modeling will show at times 10 - 20 db difference - a vast
>amount more than the difference in gain between the two. Of
>course the ultimate is to have both - long booms AND stacks to
>take advantage of height requirements. Too much for this poor
>boy!
>
>g.
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Parry" <BPARRY@RGV.RR.COM>
>To: "'StellarCAT'" <RXDesign@ssvecnet.com>; "'tower'"
><towertalk@contesting.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:26 PM
>Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Stacked KT34XA's vs The Competition?
>
>
>I have a friend who "used to" have a two stack of KT34XA's. He
>lives about a
>file from me. We did some comparisons running the same power. My
>antenna is
>a F12 C-3E(the little one). He did the test using his upper
>antenna. I was
>positive the KT34XA would blow me away.
>
>C3E was a winner on all three bands, sometimes a little and
>sometimes a lot.
>When he switched in the stacked, the difference was lessened and
>sometimes
>the stack prevailed. I didn't include how many db different.
>
>I had intended to replace the C3E with a C31, but considering
>the weight and
>cost of the antenna I decided
>not to.
>
>I'm not sure why the question had to do with the KT34XA anyway.
>The current
>version of this antenna is the KT36XA and it has been
>reconfigured. If the
>C3 is "even" nearly as good I would opt for the F12. The C3E is
>much
>smaller, much easier to put together and much, much more
>expensive.
>
>Hope that this may help in some way.
>
>Bill, W5VX
>
>
>
>
>>Subject: [TowerTalk] Stacked KT34XA's vs The
>>Competition?
>>
>>I have three f12 C31XR's here - up since Dec of last
>>year. Not
>>that it is anything spectacular but in 11 weeks I have
>>managed
>>to work over 200 countries from out here in AZ (no
>>contests
>>included) - not an overly easy task at this time of the
>>sunspot
>>cycle as well as from out west. [Heights 121', 81', 41']
>>
>>I can say MOST of the time the stack is the best of the
>>bunch -
>>on 20 rarely is there much difference between it and the
>>singletinfo/towertalk
>>
>>
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