What's that saying?
"A good antenna can over come a bad rig.
But a good rig can't over come a bad antenna".
n5vwn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Kantarjiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 8:33 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Wow, antennas really do matter
I've been making do with a really lousy doublet made of 24g zip
cord at my home QTH for the few months I've had my general. I've
made some contacts, but not gotten very far - 3W to Seattle from
Palo Alto isn't going to impress anyone on this list (though making
any contacts at all puts me in an elite portion of humanity, I
realize :-)
Leigh WA5ZNU convinced me to build a PAC-12 antenna early on, but
I never had much luck with it. It doesn't work in my back yard
at all... I brought it to our cabin a couple of times and couldn't
figure out what I was doing wrong. I could hear "OK", but no one
could hear me.
I spent some time with it and an analyzer and learned a big lesson:
that center section with the feedpoint is not symmetrical. It
matters a lot that you send the signal up into the whip, not down
into the ground. Jeez.
Last night I played with the Flying Piggies and my might KX1 sent
its signal all the way to Oklahoma City. Got 339 ... more work is
needed before I can contemplate WAS, but it's definitely encouraging!
Oink oink :-)
73 de chris K6DBG
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