No doubt a 6 el yagi won over a 2 el quad. Hard to imagine why it would not
under any circumstance or conditions.
Mike, k5wmg
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up
a life you don't need to escape from."
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Big Don <bigdon39@gmail.com> wrote:
> Back in the early 80's (?), article was published in one of the ham mags,
> by well-known ham believe it was N6 (something). He had taken a 2-el quad
> on a trailer crank-up, as his reference antenna, set it up a short distance
> from various stations he tested. Took DX sig readings on a reference rig
> switching back/forth between his reference antenna and the station's
> antenna being tested. IIRC, the winner of that study was 6-el KLM
> monobander...
>
> Don N7EF
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As K9YC and others observe, this is a highly non-trivial exercise and
> > takes weeks. I just do not have the time for the undertaking. That's
> > actually part of why we published the detailed protocol...so that some
> > other motivated group could build on it. Another possibility is for one
> of
> > the big antenna or aerospace companies to make a test range available
> for a
> > day or two and have a large group do it like Field Day. But the writeup
> > and data-crunching will still take many, many hours.[-SNIP-]
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