For the record: 40 meter antennas at W3LPL: Two full size 3 ele Yagi's at 190 feet over 100 feet - 48 foot booms.
40 meter antennas at K3LR Three full size 4 ele OWA Yagi's at 260 feet over 190 feet over 118 feet. 48 foot booms. 7 take off angle combinations are available. QSOs for 40 meters in this contest: K3LR 1767 Europe and 144 Asia W3LPL 1686 Europe and 122 Asia 73, Tim K3LR -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Tippett Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 6:17 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Effect of trees- tree appreciation Long delayed response to http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/topband/2013-August/041954.html K2AV wrote: "By common expectation LPL and LR should have a propagation advantage over NY4A. LPL and LR both have excellent stacked 3 or 4 element 40m yagi's. But note how as the fourth mode is engaged, both LR and LPL fall off because they are not cleanly engaging the mode, most likely because the increasing elevation angle is starting into a notch in the yagi vertical pattern. Also note that NY4A carries the best signal for most of the 24 hours. This is an evaluation of the NY4A 40 EU quad vs. known excellent installations that is hard to argue with." From the ARRL results database, sorted by maximum 40m QSOs (after log-checking): http://bit.ly/19YAF1f don't worry Frank...it's OK :-) Rank Call 40m QSOs 1. K3LR 2000 2. W3LPL 1911 3. WE3C 1862 4. KM1W 1818 5. NY4A 1809 K3LR could be expected to have a higher total because of better prop to JA but the other 4 should have had similar propagation to EU, which would dominate their results. There's more to this story than RBN spots from a single location shows. 73, Bill W4ZV _________________ Topband Reflector _________________ Topband Reflector