Today I did some ground-level tests at Fire Station 8, and I documented Manchester. From Manchester on Colchester Dr. at Yukon Harbor Rd. -73 dB Haystack-S3/AE7SJ no Baldi no Mirrormont From Kitsap Fire Station 8 (on the ground, lots of surrounding vegetation) no signals I expect to do an elevated test at Fire Station 8 on Friday. I can hardly wait to get my Poynting antenna. 73 from Dan at K7MM ________________________________ From: Tom Hayward <esarfl@gmail.com> To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr@hamwan.org> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Tests: East Bremerton, West Bremerton, Silverdale On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Daniel Ransom <danra995@yahoo.com> wrote:
Bart,
You know about the antenna in my photo--this is good. I was wondering if it was a decent antenna. I got it for $25 on eBay.
Hi Dan, I think this is the antenna in the photos (GD5W-28P): https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Laird+GD5W-28P There's a comparison of it to some other antennas here: https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Antenna+Shootout It looks to be about 3 dB under the Poynting, despite being the same size. That explains the difference in your numbers to my models--they're all off by at least 3 dB! Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR@hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.org/mailman/listinfo/psdr_hamwan.org