On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:55:50 GMT, "Jerry Martes"
wrote:

I have been trying to understand how it can be
determined that Yagiis are inefficient.

Hi Jerry,

That, in fact, is quite very simple.

Allow that every living person on this planet (arbitrarily assign that
number to be 6 Billion) has a receiver that is receiving you with arm
chair copy (arbitrarily assign that to be 10dB over S-9) to your
signal (arbitrarily assign that to be 100W) applied to your antenna
(arbitrarily assumed to be a Yagi).

What is the Yagi efficiency?

S-9 is 50µV into 50 Ohms and through various mental gymnastics we can
pin that down to being 50 picoWatts - but wait! There's 10dB more!
call it ½ nanoWatt....

Aggregate that over the entire Earth's total population eagerly
awaiting the news of your power efficiency. 3W total absorption. 3%
efficient.

Now, try something simple like raising that efficiency one notch, and
still hitting ALL 6 Billion people.

Hint, the Yagi couldn't satisfy this in the first place because of a
property called directivity, so a design that is "more efficient" is
even more mythical ;-)

I dare say no one here can prove to be 0.001% efficient in these
terms. [Must be validated through QSL cards.]

Efficiency: Can't live with it; Can't live without it!

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC