On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:44:39 -0800, "Frank Armstrong"
wrote:

Perhaps the 7000 is OK if you have a little time on your hands and a little
patience?

When you ask the question "How good is an xxxxx antenna", you have to
remember that the answers are all relative - to the type of antennas
that the person answering the question has used.

A guy who's never had a directional antenna, and who was using a G5RV
up 10 feet will tell you that a mutiband vertical is WONDERFUL.....

A guys who's been using a five element monobander on every band will
tell you that a multiband vertical sucks.........

So one guy will be very happy with it, and another will not.

What YOU have been using may be the deciding factor in the question
will YOU like it.....

I would venture to guess that if you put up a dipole on any particular
band, and compared it in real time to the R7000, you'd find the dipole
usually worked better. But then you'll need a bunch of dipoles to
duplicate each band, and maybe you don't have that much space.....

I don't know much about antennas, technically, but I've always like to

play with them, and I have the habit of comparing antennas with each
other - always try and have two I can switch - instead of comparing
what other people think about them. With lots of sunspots, you can
work 278 countries with a chain link fence for an antenna, so boxes
full of QSL cards don't necessarily indicate that an antenna works
well.

Having used a few of different multiband verticals in the past, I'd
say your money would be better spent on a ball of wire (if you have
the space to put it up). With two trees, some rope, and some wire,
you can build a four element 20 meter quad for a couple bucks, and
it'll beat the vertical by 40db.....

73, Jim KH2D