Glad you appreciate my humour efforts.
My humble thanks for your acceptance of my illustriousness (is that a fucking word?)
really depends on how you interpret blown away, i interpret it as a 5/8 having a better radiation angle for dx (i personally think a99/i max's are cloud warmers, my reasoning being i always hear people boast of how they work what i consider short skip or qrm on them but rarely hear boasts of consistent real dx, i wonder why?), being less prone to causing rfi, and having less noise not just due to the matching network q but also to the fact that more often than not on imax/a99 type antennas the outer skin of the coax shield is hot with common mode current,therefore above ground potential which makes it an excellent long wire for rx'ing shit you don't want to rx. but like i said its open to interpretation.
I appreciate that, seriously overpriced and unbelievably overrated, not to mention my doubts the maker has much of a clue about rf theory, although i really admire his metalworking/cloning abilities. i have that impression from the many threads and some statements he has made in the past.
my mention of that wasn't for you, but for those who confuse db and s units, but it isn't dbd, the second d is a reference to a dipole,so its not relevant when talking about s meters,a 1.5 s units increase would be referenced against the level the signal was/s reading it had before the increase. a db means nothing unless referenced against a start point.
i wouldn't know about licences,licenses conflict with my religious beliefs,lol,the trouble with rfi is you can never be certain you ain't causing it till you get a visit, trust me i found out the hard way 29 years ago.
not exactly a glowing testament to convince me to invest, that word garbage doesn't appeal to me, but i can see how it relates to the i max design
how much bandwidth do you need on an average 120 or 240 ch radio? don't even go for the multiband attributes of the i max, thats a joke, because you can get a 1.0:1 swr on a tuner don't make it an efficient radiator, a dummy load is testament to that.
PROBABLY ?
you seem to be struggling with the concept an antenna works on tx AND rx, although as you use an i max i can understand that, not much point in considering the fact a 5/8 wave will easily blow it away on any signal less than s7 or wherever the noise level is on your i max happens to be, f@ck you might as well dx with the wife and kids in the background talkin g shit, qrm is qrm and has the same result, no low level rx, some of my best contacts came when signal levels were almost zero, you wouldn't even know they were there.
