Marconi's real word tests are about as in your face as anything I have seen, the results he post speak for themselves.
really, so your familiar with Eddies testing techniques?
A 5/8 wl antenna is not going to blow away an IMAX, unless it is a JO GUNN and you believe the advertising hype
not when it comes to causing and picking up rfi it won't, i'll agree there.
Doing antenna A to antenna B comparisons to a receive station is only going to work IF you never tell the receive station what antenna you are using.
yet they are fine for you to say Eddies right and I'm wrong? you didn't even bother to ask Eddie how he came to those results, I have,and i can tell you right now in my opinion his testing methods are seriously flawed especially when propagation is involved. And to quote something Eddie once told me, he has no-one local to give him honest accurate readings, because those around him can't be @rsed helping him come to more meaningful results. not all those test were done on the same mast,with the same coax in as short a timescale as possible to counteract effects of propagation or multipath signals. thats not even accounting for human error or human ego. oh and i nearly forgot, if i recall correctly most if not all Eddies tests were done whilst receiving ssb or am signals whilst being modulated, and not a constant carrier mode like the fm we use here, make your own conclusion from that.
no disrespect meant to you Eddie, just my "honest" opinion, if i have made any errors feel free to put me right.
@ wavrider, i'll bet you think an i10k will blow it away though, hmmm whats an i10k, oh thats right just a 5/8 gp. theres 5/8 gp's and 5/8 gp's not all are the same,you guys buy your crappy fibreglass rfi generators, i'll stick to properly designed aluminium antennas.
p.s. if you see a 1.5 s point increase on any vertical base antenna comparison (not counting crappy shortened radiators), which incidentally isn't 1.5 db but a 9db increase, it tells you your s meter is shite and not a lot about the actual antenna gain. but i'm sure you'll tell me i'm wrong on that too.
when i say blow an i max away, i couldn't give a f@ck how different signal is, if you have 7 s points of sh!te in your receiver, how the f"ck can you talk to anyone at a decent signal comparison level to justify your claims? most s meters are most accurate mid scale,especially the ones on a cb or amateur radio that aren't digital, most of the digital ones suck too, a calibrated attenuator is the one of the best ways to check signal level accurately, but if you can't hear it you can't work it, no matter how good your tx signal maybe, oh and if the fcc kick your door in and liberate your radio due to interference caused by a poorly designed half an antenna you certainly won't be working anyone.
