Wes Stewart wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:01:12 -0700, "Chuck"
wrote:
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|Regarding my claims; you cannot provide
|one substantiated instance where my
|antennas did not perform as stated. Where
|are the complaints? Where are the
|dissatisfied users. One would think after TEN
|years there would have been some indication
|of a fraud if one did exist.
|
|Or perhaps you simply imagine that all those
|good folks who find my antenna design a
|superior one, are merely deluded idiots, as
|Brian Beasley once accused...
One only look at the deluded victims and followers of the likes of
Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker, Jim Jones, the Nigerian finance minister,
etc. to realize that hucksters never find a shortage of true
believers.
Hi Wes,
While what you say may be true, it
proves nothing, in that performance is
observable and comparable, and does
not require blind faith to observe it.
Let me show you how this works.
I _personally_ guarantee you that my design for a 3-element 20-meter
Yagi will out perform any Raibeam of the same boomlength and at the
same height above ground. (I'll leave out the "electrical
boomlength", whatever that means)
Now it is up to *you* to prove this claim false.
Since you are making the claim, and
there exist untold numbers of Raibeam
antennas that have consistently beat
antennas of your design (a yagi is a yagi)
in pileups, etc., the onus would be on
you to prove your claim is valid.
Conversely, if there were thousands of
your 3-element 20-meter Yagis that have
beat out the Raibeam antennas in pileups,
and the Raibeam guy makes such a claim,
then it would be up to the Raibeam guy to
prove his claim was valid.
It is all a matter of what has been
established by many instances over
time.
And like any good huckster, as "proof" of the superiority of my
design, I offer these testimonials:
With the antenna at a modest height of 50' above ground and fed with
250' of coax, in the recent ARRL Field Day contest Single-op N7WS was
able to hold a frequency while running 100 W (SSB) on emergency
power. In only 17 hours of operation 1357 20-meter Q's were logged.
All states and all ARRL sections were contacted.
Great... but a single case establishes
nothing.
During the recent YV0D expedition, N7WS worked them not once, but
twice on SSB (this ****ed them off, but I'm tired of not being in the
log when I know that I worked them), on the first call, and also
worked them with ease on CW.
http://dx.qsl.net/cgi-bin/logsearch.cgi?L=yv0d&C=n7ws
Etc., etc....
It is a well know fact that Pat Murdoch,
ZL1AXB and I, both running 4 element
Raibeams @ 40 ft, held a daily sked
for close to four years, throughout the
bottom of the previous cycle on 10 meter
SSB, with power levels never exceeding
500 watts PEP. In only about 5% of the
total contacts were the sigs too weak to
hold the sked.
.... the only signals on the band...
With that antenna, Pat won first place,
single op CW, in the ARRL 10 meter
contest both in 1996 and again in 1997 -
the only years he participated.
http://www.raibeam.com/page11.html
In the years he participated in the WPX
and CQWW contests, you will find Pat
listed in the top 10m positions as well.
Now, addressing your first assertion:
Pat can hardly be a deluded Raibeam
*cult* follower, since many of his
experiences are a matter of record.
And that does establish something.
73 de Chuck, WA7RAI