Cool, you enjoy your theory, denigrating accusations and outright untruths and I'll enjoy my real-world RF Monster Quad antenna which outperformed every Yagi & Quagi in the area - according to THEM.
There you go again, its like you are trying to put us in an out group or something... In groups and out groups are nothing more than a feeble attempt at manipulating others, and in the end almost always end up burning those who see the world that way the most. You should be careful with this, it is a good way to burn yourself.
And I don't recall ever using the term idiots.
You called me an idiot in a discussion of the Maco and Imax antennas when I not only used actual experience that differed from yours, I also told people that they should do their own research on the topic rather than use the, at the time, rather heated discussion between us.
My use of the term "Gods" was with reference to the book writers, not you Sir.
Fair enough.
...just burned out on being told that what performed in an OUTSTANDING manner in the real world, wasn't poop according to theory.
Strange, no one actually said or implied anything of the sort, and as a matter of fact, on more than one occasion in this thread above I stated that I preferred the quad over the yagi designs for any number of reasons, that is hardly calling the quad "poop".
Believe it or not, you aren't the only person here who has direct experience with these antennas, and with all due respect, I highly doubt you have as much as I do, yet all you think I put forth is theory? When it comes to the two of us you are not the only person who has built quad antennas either, as I mentioned one I built a long time ago as well. The biggest difference between us is you do something once or twice and then act like you are the end all and be all of knowledge on the subject, not even listening to reason from others who did the exact same thing. When I do something once or twice, I then look for the potential flaws in what was done and seek to do it again, only better. For me, an understanding of theory is the path to doing it better. In this regard we are clearly very different.
I'd rather help someone build one than repeatedly argue why it will or won't work.
Its not you helping others that we are arguing against, and if you think that it is then you simply aren't paying attention.
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Back in the early 80's armed with only a vswr meter & signal meter how did you measure "resonance" to determine that only impedance at the feedpoint changed as you added the parasitic elements ?
This is a very good question as with my VNA a car passing 30 or so feet away from a mobile antenna I am tuning is enough to affect reactance, and puts little bumps on the readout, and birds flying by are enough to put little spikes on the readout, both of these can add over +5 ohms of reactance, and this change is always positive, which means the change in reactance is capacitive. I've mentioned this effect several times in the past on this and other forums. These things are affecting the antenna enough to be picked up with a VNA, yet parasitic elements don't affect the antenna in this way at all?
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