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You are saying the test setup is defective because I observe higher receiver strength on a dipole over a home brew 5/8 wave antenna, and that is based on the given of the 5/8 wave antenna having a good match? I also noted a significant decrease in receive of various repeaters in the area when comparing the dipole to the home brew 5/8 wave antenna.

One thing that I had considered is that the PVC used to construct the 5/8 wave antenna was influencing its performance, but now I'm not sure after rebuilding it as a base loaded 3/4 wave antenna, which performs better than the dipole. There must be something about the antenna that leads to its poor receive performance. The quality of the match would not give an indication of its performance as an antenna. Case in point, I could replace the antenna with a perfectly matched dummy load.

[QUOTE="C2, post: 152172, member: 568"] You are saying the test setup is defective because I observe higher receiver strength on a dipole over a home brew 5/8 wave antenna, and that is based on the given of the 5/8 wave antenna having a good match? I also noted a significant decrease in receive of various repeaters in the area when comparing the dipole to the home brew 5/8 wave antenna. One thing that I had considered is that the PVC used to construct the 5/8 wave antenna was influencing its performance, but now I'm not sure after rebuilding it as a base loaded 3/4 wave antenna, which performs better than the dipole. There must be something about the antenna that leads to its poor receive performance. The quality of the match would not give an indication of its performance as an antenna. Case in point, I could replace the antenna with a perfectly matched dummy load. [/QUOTE]

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