Obviously there is important information missing from that anecdotal story.
Even if the Mosley was performing as a dipole he would have easily made the
contact. By the fact the Mosley owner could hear KC4AA says something
positive about his antenna. There is just too much missing information to
draw any conclusions about the Mosley antenna. I would like to hear the
other side of the story from the Mosley owner. I don't see the story as
funny, more biased than funny.
Doug
I wasn't born in Saskatchewan, but I got here as soon as I could.
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of David
Jordan
Sent: February-19-15 9:15 AM
To: Courtney Judd; ve4xt@mymts.net; Towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Mosley Antenna Question
Is this bash Mosley week. That was a funny story Courtney. The problem
with it is that there is no way to know if the CBer installed the antenna,
coax, etc. correctly. I've seen a few CB to Ham installations... connector
shields or center conductors not connected, traps in the wrong place,
transmitter final not tuned, etc. It just goes on and on... so really bad
practices... I don't consider your story something that would effect my
choice of antenna manufacturer but it is funny!
73
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I just have to put my 2 cents here on this subject! Back in the 70's my
friend and neighbor Don ... then WA4BCY, now K4UE... and I... then K4JYO,
now K4WI.. were busy chasing DX for new ones for our DXCC total count. Don
and I had identical rigs except for antennas: Drake twins and SB220 amps;
Don had a TH6-dxx @100 ft and I had a Hygain 2 el Quad @ 100 ft. Don and I
usually ran neck and neck on any DX that showed up. A newbie showed up in
the neighbor hood and asked us for advice and he ended up with the same
setup except someone told him that Mosley was the best antenna to have. So
he put up a Mosley tribander at 100 ft. One evening Don and I were chatting
with KC4AA in the Antarctic and the newbie broke in and asked if he could
make contact.... Sure, good ahead and call him.... after about 10 attempts
by him the KC4 asked if the caller was using a wet noodle for an antenna as
he could not hear a peep from the WB4. I guess that made him feel so bad
that he sold all his ham stuff and went back to 11 meters. I felt sorry for
him but he was given good advice and didn't follow it. Most everyone knew
that if you were serious about increasing your DXCC totals, Mosley was not
the way to go!
I worked my first 300 countries with that 2 el quad but eventually switched
to Yaesu FT-1000D and KLM "Big Sticks" monobanders and ended up with my
total of 355. So this is real world experience with the Mosley/others; I
always liked going up against any dude with a Mosley antenna in a DX
pileup... made life easier for me! My 2 cents for sure lol 73's Cort K4WI
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