You are missing to point. It's not what beat the quad, the quad was used as a
reference.
Pull the trailer close to a station antenna, measure a few incoming signals, on
the same receiver, move to the next station. Lots of variables, but interesting.
Think it was Wayne Overbeck, who did the VHF Quagi stuff.
On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:17, Michael Goins <wmgoins@gmail.com> wrote:
> No doubt a 6 el yagi won over a 2 el quad. Hard to imagine why it would not
> under any circumstance or conditions.
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> Mike, k5wmg
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Big Don <bigdon39@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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