Thanks for the link Bob. You are right about one thing, I didn't do a very good job of blind testing, and thus I left the door wide open. That was my contact Russell that said that, and I generally don't trust much of anything he says. I was even surprised he didn't balk at giving me the signal report in the first place.
However, he did note that the S4 showed 2-3 and the GM showed 3-5, and that maybe generally in the ball park with the recap averages I saw in my recent side-by-side testing.
I think I've said this before, but I haven't really sat and studied these reports yet and have not added captions, so your point may be correct. If I did state somewhere that this report from Russell was the deciding factor, then that was not what I meant to relate. If I talked about this experience in a post at all, then I was just being anecdotal. One reason I don't encourage two way reports is because different radios can show different signals whether DX is working or not. I have no idea about his radio, and that is why I asked him if he had a meter and it was working. He is reputed to do tech work on radios, amps, and such and from what I've seen at his station, he usually is working a rig that has no cabinet, just the board and he has stuff like that everywhere.
I think Homer is right about the reciprocal issue that Bob raises, and I haven't thought that issue out well, but I do believe antennas show reciprocal tendencies and I'm not sure at all how radios and their meters deal with that. Bob, I would expect radios to do as you suggest however. Frankly I remember being a bit surprised as his words, so I thought maybe since I added unnecessary words, about how old the Sigma4 was, I might have confused the issue, and I wasn't about to continue the conversation in a hostile setting. I just knew that at any moment someone would start complaining so I got out of there fast. I never gave that conversation another thought. Maybe that is why I couldn't relate to your original words until you refreshed my memory. Remember too, I've been very busy with all this testing and haven't really done a good job of recall on the forum.
BTW, when looking back at that video I noticed the two antennas were showing me about the same signal from most operators, including Russell with maybe a slight advantage for the Sigma4 at that point. I saw it hanging close to Russell's S9 signal a bit more than the signal for the GM, so Bob you are right on that score. I also noticed that right at the end of this exchange some unknown signal popped up in my receiver and that could have been the opening up of some DX. I think most of the videos were done during am hours between 5:00 & 9:00 AM, and these guys usually stop talking if DX starts up, so I'm not sure what the conditions really were. Usually when I try and do videos for my Signal Reports, the talking you hear is when I'm talking to the camera and not the guys I reporting on. It's harder to test and talk to the guys on my radio.
:headbangMack is full of hot air, because my antennas are enclosed in the "Cone of Silence" in an effort to help eliminate that variable from ill-affecting my scientific research. :thumbdown:
Bob, sure has it right about when he was testing a lot. It's the same here, but these guys are all younger.
