[Elecraft] Re: W0O (As in Wooooo)

[Tom Hammond NØSS]

Hi Vic:

> > I had two antennas (80/40
> > dipole @ 30' and a Butternut vertical) at my fingertips. The KAT100 tuned
> > both on ALL BANDS with a 1.2: or better SWR, and I was able to switch
> > instantly between them for changing propagation and for A/B antenna
> > comparisions.
>
>Don't keep us in suspense!  Which antenna was better and when?

For some inexplicable reason, in almost all cases ('cept of 80M) the 
vertical was better than the dipole... though I recently was informed that 
we had the dipoles running E-W instead of N-S, so there were nulls in the 
FAVORED directions... this might have made a BIG difference.

161,

Tom