"NM5K" wrote in message
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If they rated a ringo using dbd, it would be zero.. Which doesn't
look too good in the ad's.. :|
So they use dbi to make for manlier gain figures..


I think CC just pulled numbers out of the air. Especially in the eairly
days. Just looking at an old ad from 1974. They rate the 2 meter Ringo at
3.75 db gain. No refferance as to what. Also the 11 element was rated at
13.2 db of gain. The only antenna that does make sense is the 4 bay dipole
with up to 9 db of gain. Atleast if you put all the dipoles on one side, it
could have almost 9 db of gain over a dipole.

I did compair two differant 220 mhz 11 element beams to an 8 element quagi I
built from plans in the ARRL Handbook. The quagi was much beter than either
of the 11 element CC antennas.
The antennas were put on a 30 foot push up pole so it was easy to change and
compair them. Most of the testing was to a repeater about 40 miles away,
but the results were the same on other signals.

Common joke was the CC stuff was compaired to the Heathkit Cantenna in terms
of db gain.