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The months I had my latest 5/8 up (that I reworked into the Qv4k) he hadn't moved here yet so I was unable to compare those two, but I did have up a couple different half waves and some dipoles of various configurations that his antenna easily trumped. Also the 2 element Quad I gave away this past Spring was up when he was most active and I naturally had to turn it toward anything he heard better than I did. I did have the 5/8 up a little while at a lower elevation right before I began to rebuild it into the Qv4k, but he has been out of state, and I had no chance to go head-to-head with him lately. My point was that I experienced personal satisfaction from trumping his antenna with such a clear margin of better performance. I am trying to get the older homebrew 5/8 up to the standard of the last one (time and the parts being put into the Qv4k have been impediments to my progress), and then hopefully I can pit both it and the Qv4k against each other and his antenna. It will have to be soon as there is someone in need of the 5/8 when I get it done so I have already given it away.

<blockquote data-quote="HomerBB" data-source="post: 229346" data-attributes="member: 8569"><p>The months I had my latest 5/8 up (that I reworked into the Qv4k) he hadn&#039;t moved here yet so I was unable to compare those two, but I did have up a couple different half waves and some dipoles of various configurations that his antenna easily trumped. Also the 2 element Quad I gave away this past Spring was up when he was most active and I naturally had to turn it toward anything he heard better than I did. I did have the 5/8 up a little while at a lower elevation right before I began to rebuild it into the Qv4k, but he has been out of state, and I had no chance to go head-to-head with him lately. My point was that I experienced personal satisfaction from trumping his antenna with such a clear margin of better performance. I am trying to get the older homebrew 5/8 up to the standard of the last one (time and the parts being put into the Qv4k have been impediments to my progress), and then hopefully I can pit both it and the Qv4k against each other and his antenna. It will have to be soon as there is someone in need of the 5/8 when I get it done so I have already given it away.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="HomerBB, post: 229346, member: 8569"] The months I had my latest 5/8 up (that I reworked into the Qv4k) he hadn't moved here yet so I was unable to compare those two, but I did have up a couple different half waves and some dipoles of various configurations that his antenna easily trumped. Also the 2 element Quad I gave away this past Spring was up when he was most active and I naturally had to turn it toward anything he heard better than I did. I did have the 5/8 up a little while at a lower elevation right before I began to rebuild it into the Qv4k, but he has been out of state, and I had no chance to go head-to-head with him lately. My point was that I experienced personal satisfaction from trumping his antenna with such a clear margin of better performance. I am trying to get the older homebrew 5/8 up to the standard of the last one (time and the parts being put into the Qv4k have been impediments to my progress), and then hopefully I can pit both it and the Qv4k against each other and his antenna. It will have to be soon as there is someone in need of the 5/8 when I get it done so I have already given it away. [/QUOTE]

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