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Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son

To: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm@telia.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son
From: "Bob Maser" <bmaser@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:45:51 -0400
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Jim, you are right. What I plan to do is put up a 205BA and then compare it with a 4 element SteppIR. (I won't tell anyone that I am only using 4 of the elements. Let's keep it a secret, OK?). Yagi performance is a function of boom length, not the number of elements.

Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm@telia.com>
Cc: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son



I don´t expect anything however it´s totally wrong calling that
antenna a 204BA, it´s something else but no 204BA, it´s a "former"
204BA.

/Jim SM2EKM
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Bob Maser wrote:
Surely you don't expect a 4 element on a 26 foot boom to be competition
for a 4 element SteppIR on a 32 or 34 foot , do you?  I was just
leveling the playing field by taking the boom from a 205BA and taking
away one of the directors.

The day that some company comes out with an antenna that can vary the
length of the elements and change spacings between the elements, then I
will consider buying one,

Bob W6TR
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm@telia.com>
Cc: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son


However then it´s NO 204BA any more!

/ 73 Jim
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Bob Maser wrote:
That's easy to do. Take a 5 element 205BA, remove one of the directors,
run the YO antenna modeling program using the 34 foot boom and, viola,
you have a 4 element beam on a 34 foot boom.


Bob W6TR
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] step away from steppir, Son


The HyGain 204BA has a 26 ft boom, the 205BA has a 34 ft boom.
Tell us more about your 204BA on a 34 ft boom?

Doug

After spending all that money for a SteppIr antenna, nobody's gonna
call

their kid ugly.  I am putting up a 4 element HyGain 204BA on a 34 foot
boom.
Can't wait to find me a horse race with a SteppIr!

Bob W6TR




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