In a message to Wayne Sarosi  Jeff Edmonson wrote:
 JE> Think you sent me a manual and documentation on it, too.  Blue
 JE> cover? It was about an LPA.
Hmmm?  I did send out some tests and a test report. Was it the one
for the LPDA? It was designed for MARS work? I remember sending a bunch
of those too.
 >> The LPA is a 10 element, ten footer 142-150. I'll be running that
 >> vertical. It runs at just short of 9dB. It's also flat (1.3:1 or
 >> less)
 JE> Impressive, as well, but I like the idea of 16db, and around
 JE> 160W! How about the possibilities of running a pair of those, for
 JE> 19db? (you know as well as I do, that stacking a pair of beam
 JE> antennas, only gives you 3db more gain).
Oh Yea, And you could with a two way harness. There are other benifits from 
two beams but you have to remember also that 100w to two antennas is only 50 
watts to each. So if your power remains the same as to one antenna you
gain nothing but pattern change. Now if you can set the beams up in a focal
pattern with near perfect matching you can get that 3dB. Most people
just put the two antenna up and harness them together. Like headlights
on a car, you have to adjust them to work in tandem.
 JE> Interesting around here, that with Brooks AFB, Ft. Sam Houston,
 JE> Randolph AFB, Kelly/Lackland AFB, Medina Base (a munitions dump),
 JE> and a few other smaller outfits in the area, there's no
 JE> limitations on power we can run, here.
I believe it has to do with rockets and command destruct which works just
outside the 70cm band. Later it will be in our 70cm band.
 JE> Around here, 440 is nice, QUIET, and everything there is 'pl' access!
 JE> (you watch, someone will ask what 'pl' is  };-> )
They're learning.
-WS
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