On Monday, July 18, 2011 4:07:09 PM UTC-5, amdx wrote:
On 7/18/2011 9:58 AM, wrote:
On Sunday, July 17, 2011 3:49:46 PM UTC-5, Sal wrote:


OK, so the final score is Dallas 3, Me 0. Game over. *sigh*

"Sal"

Now you see why I will not have anything to do with a
"group" that you must sign up for. Never have, and never will.

In trying to avoid such a simple request, you deny yourself
a great many sites.

I'll survive.. :/


Many of them seem to like to play their silly games, have
control over what is posted, banish the hecklers, etc..
No way to live as far as I'm concerned.

I don't see this as reason to deny yourself access to
hundreds or thousands of sites that have great information.

Who says it's all great information? Some may be. Some
may not. I'm not going to jump through hoops to find out
one way or the other.


And I don't need him to learn about phased broadcast
band antennas.

I want to learn, do you have any sites with good broadcast band antennas.

Well...Google is your friend.. He's not the only one to run
those ya know..
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...8&fr=yfp-t-701

I'm sure I can gather some usable info without having
to jump through a hoop.


It's not like he invented them or anything.

He's not claiming invention, but he has made a nice
contribution to the hobby.

No problem with that. But I'm not going to be a
spectator if I have to jump through hoops, be censored,
moderated, vetted, etc, ad nausium.. :+


He's just tinkering with a few, and I presume posting his
results to the few that he deems worthy.. :/


Tinkering seems a little insincere, I'm sure he ha smany hundreds
of hours into his research.

He probably does. But what does that have to do with me?


Please post any websites you have regarding broadcast band antennas.
I have not found much other than resonant loops and beverages.
Mikek

Already gave one example above. I think W8JI was using
some sort of steerable verticals, and he might have some
info on his site. As I recall, they were pretty short,
and maybe not even resonant, but I don't recall how he
was steering them.
There is tons of stuff out there.. And there is always
that source many seem to ignore these days. Books.

Myself, I happen to like loops.. I'm more interested in
a good null, than I am a really directional pattern like a
flashlight. I don't have the room to run a decent beverage
here. I can do it at my dirt patch out in the sticks, but
I've never got around to stringing the wire up.
I intend to do it one of these days just to give em a try.
Anyway, I've been fairly satisfied just using the various
loops I have for general AM-BC use.
If I decide to build something a tad more exotic, I'll
dig up the info, and I won't be jumping through hoops to
get it. Plenty of other flag array users out there.
No need for me to bother Dallas about it.