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[QUOTE=&quot;Piggie, post: 45145, member: 2941&quot;]:welcome: Welcome to the forum.What a great website. I really love what you did on the Y10-7-13's reflector.&nbsp; I commented and you probably read I had a 2 meter Cushcraft &quot;Boomer&quot; series that had 3 reflectors, one in the plane then one above and below it slightly more to the rear (if mounted for horizontal polarization).&nbsp; I have a pair of YA-1713's stacked 40 inches vertically.&nbsp; It works well for my stations out of Jax (probably read all about this) but Tampa has the same stations about 20 degrees off the rear of my stack and they eat up Jax during tropo.&nbsp; Funny that at one point remembering my old Cushcraft 2 meter beams I thought about that for my stack and was elated you actually did it. As far as relative measurements I completely understood your point. I can't afford a calibrated SA ether and even used to own a nice one, but they are just too expensive or were to keep around for the occasional measurement. So I am plenty happy to read about your relative observations.A story of my own. Back in the day, being a poor college student I could not afford a power meter or swr bridge. I rebuilt stuff out of the 50's in the 70's to use on the ham bands.&nbsp; Someone gave me a cheap Radio Shack SWR meter meant for use on 11 meters.&nbsp; I took it home and tested my antennas. Then I had another ham with a nice Bird and the right slugs to test behind me.&nbsp; Sure enough I had lowered the SWR on my wire antennas (HF Band) as low as they would go.&nbsp; That cheap little meter served me for about 4 years until I became gainfully employed and bought a Bird Watt Meter.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a simple diode detector and was wildly sensitive up on 2 meters my highest band at the time but it worked. It's only scaling was relative even for the 11 meter band.&nbsp; Of course I never operated with it as it's diode detector probably poured out harmonics.&nbsp; Point being relative was good enough to do what I needed to do. I probably learned more about antenna during that period of time than any other in my life with only a cheap little CB band SWR meter and watching my plate current!Dude, keep up the good work. You should PM the guy here Winegard. He works for them and might possibly ask him to sample some antennas to you.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Piggie, post: 45145, member: 2941"]:welcome: Welcome to the forum. What a great website. I really love what you did on the Y10-7-13's reflector. I commented and you probably read I had a 2 meter Cushcraft "Boomer" series that had 3 reflectors, one in the plane then one above and below it slightly more to the rear (if mounted for horizontal polarization). I have a pair of YA-1713's stacked 40 inches vertically. It works well for my stations out of Jax (probably read all about this) but Tampa has the same stations about 20 degrees off the rear of my stack and they eat up Jax during tropo. Funny that at one point remembering my old Cushcraft 2 meter beams I thought about that for my stack and was elated you actually did it. As far as relative measurements I completely understood your point. I can't afford a calibrated SA ether and even used to own a nice one, but they are just too expensive or were to keep around for the occasional measurement. So I am plenty happy to read about your relative observations. A story of my own. Back in the day, being a poor college student I could not afford a power meter or swr bridge. I rebuilt stuff out of the 50's in the 70's to use on the ham bands. Someone gave me a cheap Radio Shack SWR meter meant for use on 11 meters. I took it home and tested my antennas. Then I had another ham with a nice Bird and the right slugs to test behind me. Sure enough I had lowered the SWR on my wire antennas (HF Band) as low as they would go. That cheap little meter served me for about 4 years until I became gainfully employed and bought a Bird Watt Meter. It was a simple diode detector and was wildly sensitive up on 2 meters my highest band at the time but it worked. It's only scaling was relative even for the 11 meter band. Of course I never operated with it as it's diode detector probably poured out harmonics. Point being relative was good enough to do what I needed to do. I probably learned more about antenna during that period of time than any other in my life with only a cheap little CB band SWR meter and watching my plate current! Dude, keep up the good work. You should PM the guy here Winegard. He works for them and might possibly ask him to sample some antennas to you.[/QUOTE]

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