Hi Bill: You maybe forgot to mention to mount them upside down to avoid
bird damage. I've got a recent influx of turkey vultures here and they bent
the crap out of my 903 loops (it was mounted loop side up, oops). These
turkey vultures are fat and heavy like real turkeys, very destructive! oH
yeah, the 1296 looper looks like new (remembered to mount that one upside
down).
-73, Ron WZ1V FN31
At 11:35 AM 2/4/2008, you wrote:
>Both antennas have great gain. The argument for the loop Yagi (Directive
>Systems) has in part been wet weather performance. Water droplets on the
>ends of rod elements (the high impedance points) of a rod element (M^2)
>Yagi always detune it and this effect gets worse as you go higher in
>frequency. On the loop Yagi, at least when it's horizontally polarized,
>and that's probably what we're talking about here, water runs around the
>loop to the low impedance point and basically just runs off the element.
>People have often talked about "loops getting bent" as a down side of the
>loop design, I've never found this to be a problem, I've had a pair of
>45el 23cm loops, a 47el 903 loop and a 45el 2304 loop at 120ft (+/-) in
>Maine for almost 20 years. they've been through ice storms, hurricanes,
>LARGE BIRDS, etc and still look and work perfectly.
>
>my $.02,
>
>bill, K1DY
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:08:20 -0800
> > From: timcoad@gmail.com
> > To: alan@muldawer.com
> > CC: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Looking for a 1.2 GHz antenna.
> >
> > Sorry, I have one of each, and they are both great as far as I can tell.
> > The Directive Systems came pretty much all ready to go just connect the
> boom
> > halves.. The M2 needed quite a lot of time to install all those elements...
> >
> > Tim - NU6S
> >
> >
> > On 2/2/08, Alan Muldawer <alan@muldawer.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Looking for a 1.2 GHz antenna.
> > > Hi: I am looking for a 1.2 GHz antenna. I am not sure if I should go
> > > the Directive Systems or M2 or any others. I would appreciate any
> > > suggestions.
> > > Bests & 73
> > > Alan N3ALN
> > >
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