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Marconi, I may have to beg to agree with Jazzsinger on this one, at least when it comes to receive.

My Imax was one of the noisiest antennas I've ever used. My metal 5/8 'blew it away' in terms of pulling out weak stations which were actually stronger on the Imax when the static wasn't in, (the Imax was installed almost 20' higher than the metal 5/8, here at the bottom of my local hill) but due to static I often had to switch to the metal 5/8 to hear someone coming in with s-2 because I couldn't hear their s-3 on the Imax because the Imax had an s-4 static level where the metal 5/8 had maybe s-1.

As far as transmit, considering the comparatively inefficient matching network of the Imax, I would also venture an inspired guess that at a level of around 1000w-1500w the metal 5/8 would radiate a higher percentage of the RF wattage than would the Imax since I bet the Imax would lose a considerable amount of that RF wattage in matching network heat, and that, coupled with a slightly higher TOA, could possibly cause a situation where the metal 5/8 might seriously beat the Imax to someone afar off where the metal 5/8 just barely gets through clearly enough to be understood, but the Imax doesn't.

Being heard clearly on the one, (though not necessarily with any notable signal strength) but not heard clearly on the other, and if the one can receive clearly when the other cannot, in my book may constitute "Blowing it away" conditions.

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<blockquote data-quote="Needle Bender" data-source="post: 366861" data-attributes="member: 13339">Marconi, I may have to beg to agree with Jazzsinger on this one, at least when it comes to receive.My Imax was one of the noisiest antennas I&#039;ve ever used. My metal 5/8 &#039;blew it away&#039; in terms of pulling out weak stations which were actually stronger on the Imax when the static wasn&#039;t in, (the Imax was installed almost 20&#039; higher than the metal 5/8, here at the bottom of my local hill) but due to static I often had to switch to the metal 5/8 to hear someone coming in with s-2 because I couldn&#039;t hear their s-3 on the Imax because the Imax had an s-4 static level where the metal 5/8 had maybe s-1.As far as transmit, considering the comparatively inefficient matching network of the Imax, I would also venture an inspired guess that at a level of around 1000w-1500w the metal 5/8 would radiate a higher percentage of the RF wattage than would the Imax since I bet the Imax would lose a considerable amount of that RF wattage in matching network heat, and that, coupled with a slightly higher TOA, could possibly cause a situation where the metal 5/8 might seriously beat the Imax to someone afar off where the metal 5/8 just barely gets through clearly enough to be understood, but the Imax doesn&#039;t.Being heard clearly on the one, (though not necessarily with any notable signal strength) but not heard clearly on the other, and if the one can receive clearly when the other cannot, in my book may constitute &quot;Blowing it away&quot; conditions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f617.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":whistle:" title="Whistling&nbsp; &nbsp; :whistle:"&nbsp; data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":whistle:" />:blink:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Needle Bender, post: 366861, member: 13339"] [FONT="Verdana"]Marconi, I may have to beg to agree with Jazzsinger on this one, at least when it comes to receive. My Imax was one of the [B]noisiest [/B]antennas I've ever used. My metal 5/8 '[I]blew it away[/I]' in terms of pulling out weak stations which were actually stronger on the Imax when the static wasn't in, (the Imax was installed almost 20' higher than the metal 5/8, here at the bottom of my local hill) but due to static I often had to switch to the metal 5/8 to hear someone coming in with s-2 because I couldn't hear their s-3 on the Imax because the Imax had an [B]s-4[/B] static level where the metal 5/8 had maybe s-1. As far as transmit, considering the comparatively inefficient matching network of the Imax, I would also venture an inspired guess that at a level of around 1000w-1500w the metal 5/8 would radiate a higher percentage of the RF wattage than would the Imax since I bet the Imax would lose a considerable amount of that RF wattage in matching network [B]heat[/B], and that, coupled with a slightly higher TOA, could possibly cause a situation where the metal 5/8 might seriously beat the Imax to someone afar off where the metal 5/8 just barely gets through clearly enough to be understood, but the Imax doesn't. Being heard clearly on the one, (though not necessarily with any notable signal strength) but not heard clearly on the other, and if the one can receive clearly when the other cannot, in my book may constitute "Blowing it away" conditions.[/FONT] :whistle: :blink: [/QUOTE]

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