I can generally park underneath anyone's base antenna and listen to signals that they are unable to notice.
With all due respect, the connectors you are using won't improve your antenna system to the extent that is can out receive a base antenna mounted above it. If you are receiving signals they can't, then they have a problem with their setup, plain and simple. Note, this quote is from before the "sapphire crystal" part of the discussion
There's definitely lots of people like that in this forum. It's time to get out from under that rock and get some real world experience under your belts.
I would caution you on this type of remark. On this forum, it is my experience that most of the people who are told something like this have far more experience than the people making such remarks. I, as an example of someone who has been told this type of statement multiple times, have had my hands on over 20 differemt antennas this year alone, and have more to work on in the next few weeks.
Unfortunately, when it comes to antennas, you can only really learn so much from experience alone. When I started learning about antenna theory and kept working with antennas, the difference in what I would notice and could do was like night and day. I once thought I was doing a good job, but in comparison to what I am capable of today I was just muddling my way through.
There must be something to AB7IF's claim. The guy was a genius, even if he couldn't tune a fish.
When this came up before, I made a remark about this person...
I am also not familiar with the author of that post, or any studies that will confirm/deny that statement. his choice of words "can be proven" has me curious,
Since then I have come across some of this guys writings, mostly related to the cbtricks web site. Russell Clift is intelligent, but I wouldn't call him a genius by any stretch of the imagination.
The DB
