How about an antenna shootout with an ATX, MP-1, low dipole on fiberglass
pole, and anything else truly portable someone's excited enough to bring
along? I realize this won't settle a darn thing :) but could be done blind
(only transmit as antenna A, antenna B, etc.) and get some reports back. If
we wanted to be tricky, we could slip in the same antenna at different power
levels and see if anyone could tell the difference.
If anyone is interested, and is in the western Chicago suburbs or wants to go
there, we could pick a time and frequency, head for a big open field in the
Forest Preserves, and have at it, cycling in 20 - 30 second increments, and
get reports back from others on the reflector. 0000 - 0100Z would probably
be good here for 18, 14, 10 and 7 mhz, and allow for possible propogation to
Eu and SA (+/_) sunspots, and make a week night a possibility both for
transmitters and listeners. I'd do it myself, but don't run anything except
a Hustler, a homemade 10 foot whip and an open wire dipole, and am too cheap
to buy one of those fancy whips...In any event it could be an interesting
gathering of the local FT817 crowd.
Or maybe somebody on the east and west coast can do this, and I can sit
inside, in the air conditioned bug-free environs, listening with an 807 in
hand and the 817 in the other...
73 Scott
If anyone's interested, pleae contact me direct
