Absolutely no offense taken. I read with interest and appreciate your
contributions to the technical issues on this site.
I am just standing up for a solution that was good enough and proven to be
so over a period of decades. Perfection is a wonderful goal but not always
cost effective in time, or dollars. The OP apparently has the MB antenna.
If he tries it and gets acceptable results then no harm done. If it doesn't
work acceptably for him then he can profit from the tech suggestions offered
here. Should be a win-win for him.
73
Patrick AF5CK
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brown
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:59 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 2 Meter Balun Question
On 11/21/2013 1:17 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
I think the light bulb comment is unwarranted.
I'm sorry if you're offended -- none was intended. But most of us who
have heard Tom speak on the topic have found the story a clever way of
observing that some things work better than others. I have a vertical
half-wave dipole for 40M hanging next to a very tall redwood, and I can
make a lot of QSOs with it and get good signal reports. But if I switch
to a high horizontal dipole in he middle of the QSO, the other station
will tell me the horizontal dipole is ten dB louder.
My comments were specifically written for the original poster, and to
give him enough ideas to think intelligently about his problem.
73, Jim K9YC
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