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


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