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[Douglas D. Williams]

LOL, yes I hope so Bill.

"The worse my antenna, the more POWER I can run!"

;-)

-Doug

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am NOT on the air at 600 meters but my pipe dream has always included
> a separate receiving antenna. I think the original post about dumping a
> couple of KW into one of the XYL's hair pins or other inefficient
> antenna to get 1 Watt ERP was more in a humorous vein (there is always
> hope). On the other hand a quarter wave ground plane elevated 4
> wavelengths above ground is not very likely, either.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
> On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 05:43 -0400, Douglas D. Williams wrote:
>
> > Yes, but the only power that counts is what is being radiated by the
> > antenna as RF. So, what's the point of pumping 100 watts into an
> > inefficient antenna when the same amount of RF could be transmitted by
> > pumping 10 watts into a more efficient antenna? Not to mention the fact
> > that the less efficient antenna is also likely to be much worse at
> > receiving.
>
>
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