Tests today from Fire Station 8 and Manchester Dock with the new Poynting antenna. FS8 Simpson Training Tower: no signals, water tower right in front of me. Next step--negotiate for access to the water tower (already started). Manchester Dock: good signals from Baldi, Haystack, and from AE7SJ. From Manchester on Colchester Dr. at Yukon Harbor Rd. -78 dB Haystack-S3/AE7SJ (previous was -73 with Laird antenna and clear weather) no Baldi no Mirrormont From Manchester at Manchester Dock (end of Madrone Dr. E) -71 dB Haystack-S3/AE7SJ 70 degrees (over the south end of Bainbridge Island) -79 dB AE7SJ 70 degrees -72 dB N7FSP/Baldi-S3 160 degrees (over the south end of Blake Island) -73 dB N7FSP/Baldi-S1 160 degrees I am getting another (same) tripod, so I will have two setups: one with Poynting antenna, and one with Laird antenna, for some A/B comparisons. 73 from Dan at K7MM ________________________________ From: Daniel Ransom <danra995@yahoo.com> To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr@hamwan.org> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Tests: Manchester, Fire Station 8 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