You are right King, but you can usually tell a question is asked when you see a sentence that is in the form of a question, and it should have a ? at the end. Unlike you, I did look back and you did allude to several aspects of my questions, but maybe you could clairfy on those below. We are curious to hear what you have to say.
I asked the following specific questions.
You also make the following statement.
Can you explain how this is possible, since gain is not a condition that is significantly determined by simply tuning an element to resonance and match? Can I assume that you are saying that tuning on the fly, however that is physically done with the Steppir, is the bases of your knowing what the gain is in the steppir at any given frequency in the range you note, and that the Steppir is always improved over any possible configuration in the basic fixed setup type yagi with any give number of elements and boom length used as in a Maco?
Since the steppir also has fixed spacing, how does it deal with the spacing factors for different bands? Computer optomizing procedures have been developed in modeling for modern yagi beams in recent years. This is a factor that is directly related to maximizing gain, rejection, or match over the old style balanced and evenly spaced yagi beam designs of the past. So how could a Steppir that is physically setup for 20 meter spacing, produce a better signal when the antenna is actually adjusted to work at 10 meters?
How do the frequencies beyond, on both sides of the center frequency that the antenna spacing is initally set for, deal with this obviously compromised spacing as installed? Again I assume the Steppir is initally setup at about 20 meters in physical size, the middle of the HF region. How can you have maximum gain on all bands of operation, as you note, if the antenna is setup with fixed set spacing? It just does not make any sense to me. A 20 meter yagi antenna will have pretty wide spacing and the boom will also be very long compared to 11 meters. Again, even though you can affect the resonant length of all elements to work well at 27 mHz, how does that work out for the spacing when physically setup for 20 meters as in the Steppir?
The spacing in the Maco will necessarily have significantly closer and whatever it is is likely optomized for 11 meters specifically. How does this all work out for the Steppir to literaly destroy the Maco, as you have repeatedly noted?
At what frequency is shrouding for spacing and element length actually set at initally in the Steppir? How does this antenna work to tune 160 meters if setup at 20 meters without a tuner? Again it has to be a compromize setup at all but the inital band setup and that does not spell better, best, maximum, destroyier of all others for me, unless you can explain how it defies natural laws in this area.
I asked the following specific questions.
You also make the following statement.
Can you explain how this is possible, since gain is not a condition that is significantly determined by simply tuning an element to resonance and match? Can I assume that you are saying that tuning on the fly, however that is physically done with the Steppir, is the bases of your knowing what the gain is in the steppir at any given frequency in the range you note, and that the Steppir is always improved over any possible configuration in the basic fixed setup type yagi with any give number of elements and boom length used as in a Maco?
Since the steppir also has fixed spacing, how does it deal with the spacing factors for different bands? Computer optomizing procedures have been developed in modeling for modern yagi beams in recent years. This is a factor that is directly related to maximizing gain, rejection, or match over the old style balanced and evenly spaced yagi beam designs of the past. So how could a Steppir that is physically setup for 20 meter spacing, produce a better signal when the antenna is actually adjusted to work at 10 meters?
How do the frequencies beyond, on both sides of the center frequency that the antenna spacing is initally set for, deal with this obviously compromised spacing as installed? Again I assume the Steppir is initally setup at about 20 meters in physical size, the middle of the HF region. How can you have maximum gain on all bands of operation, as you note, if the antenna is setup with fixed set spacing? It just does not make any sense to me. A 20 meter yagi antenna will have pretty wide spacing and the boom will also be very long compared to 11 meters. Again, even though you can affect the resonant length of all elements to work well at 27 mHz, how does that work out for the spacing when physically setup for 20 meters as in the Steppir?
The spacing in the Maco will necessarily have significantly closer and whatever it is is likely optomized for 11 meters specifically. How does this all work out for the Steppir to literaly destroy the Maco, as you have repeatedly noted?
At what frequency is shrouding for spacing and element length actually set at initally in the Steppir? How does this antenna work to tune 160 meters if setup at 20 meters without a tuner? Again it has to be a compromize setup at all but the inital band setup and that does not spell better, best, maximum, destroyier of all others for me, unless you can explain how it defies natural laws in this area.
