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Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting development

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting development
From: "Ian White" <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:58:20 +0100
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>[snip]
>After the contest Sunday, I turned the Force to EU and was listening to
>anM0 on 20m. The Steppir elements were homed. Then I put the Steppir on
>20mand watched the S meter go up 3 s units.change in band conditions I
>thought,so I homed the Steppir elements and found the M0 went down 3 s
>units. I repeated homing the elements 3 times, and each time, the M0
went
>down in signal strength.
>[end snipo]
>
>
>Sounds [is] impossible.  Are you sure that you weren't still on the
SteppiIR
>and that the 3 S unit shift was actually due to the delta between the
"home"
>position and the 20m position...again, while connected to the Steppir?
>Sounds much more likely.
>
>de Doug KR2Q

It could have happened exactly as described. If the signal from the M0
station was arriving in a deep null in the vertical pattern of the
higher antenna, then passive coupling with the SteppIR could quite
easily have filled that null and brought the signal up by a large
amount.


73 from Ian GM3SEK


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>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting development
>
>[snip]
>After the contest Sunday, I turned the Force to EU and was listening to
>anM0 on 20m. The Steppir elements were homed. Then I put the Steppir on
>20mand watched the S meter go up 3 s units.change in band conditions I
>thought,so I homed the Steppir elements and found the M0 went down 3 s
>units. I repeated homing the elements 3 times, and each time, the M0
went
>down in signal strength.
>[end snipo]
>
>
>Sounds [is] impossible.  Are you sure that you weren't still on the
SteppiIR
>and that the 3 S unit shift was actually due to the delta between the
"home"
>position and the 20m position...again, while connected to the Steppir?
>Sounds much more likely.
>
>de Doug KR2Q
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