Well, once you "hit the wall" at maybe 150 countries or so, (or don't get
the contest scores you want), you start to raise your standards. That
inevitably increases your contact with theory and overrules past practice.
"Not working" is always relative, it seems.
For instance, I once put up a basic Butternut 5 band vertical with a
whopping four buried radials. It actually worked "well enough" on
40/20/15/10 to get me to maybe 200 countries. I even worked South Sandwich
on 40 meters with that setup.
But, my results on 80 were really terrible and remained that way until I
put down the 64 radials recommended in "Low Band DXing", which I hadn't
done. Suddenly, I was doing stuff on 80 that I never did before. I was
able to achieve more on 40, too, when I did what, you know, theory demanded.
I think most of us have a similar learning curve, except maybe we forget
what we learned and why; once learned, you tend to "just do it" in your
future endeavors.
It works the other direction, too. Now that I have that tower at 65 feet,
the results I'm having there throws a retroactive light on what I used to
be able to do and would color my efforts were I to decide to rely on wire
antennas again.
Larry Wo0Z
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:50 AM, GEO Badger <w3ab@yahoo.com> wrote:
> As pointed out by others here, we put up many antennas and used cheap, err
> inexpensive, gear and made lots of contacts and we didn't know our set-ups
> wouldn't work. Now we know they won't work.
>
> Why?
>
>
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> Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side.
> GEO
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>
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> line." - Oscar Levant
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