[HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Tests: Manchester, Fire Station 8

[Daniel Ransom]

Tests today from Fire Station 8 and Manchester Dock with the new Poynting antenna.

FS8 Simpson Training Tower:  no signals, water tower right in front of me.  Next step--negotiate for access to the water tower (already started).

Manchester Dock:  good signals from Baldi, Haystack, and from AE7SJ.


From Manchester on Colchester Dr. at Yukon Harbor Rd.  

    -78 dB Haystack-S3/AE7SJ  (previous was -73 with Laird antenna and clear weather)

    no Baldi
    no Mirrormont

From Manchester at Manchester Dock  (end of Madrone Dr. E)

    -71 dB Haystack-S3/AE7SJ   70 degrees (over the south end of Bainbridge Island)
    -79 dB AE7SJ   70 degrees

    -72 dB N7FSP/Baldi-S3  160 degrees  (over the south end of Blake Island)
    -73 dB N7FSP/Baldi-S1  160 degrees


I am getting another (same) tripod, so I will have two setups:  one with Poynting antenna, and one with Laird antenna, for some A/B comparisons.

73 from Dan at K7MM



________________________________
 From: Daniel Ransom <danra995 at yahoo.com>
To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr at hamwan.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Tests:  Manchester, Fire Station 8
 


Today I did some ground-level tests at Fire Station 8, and I documented Manchester.


From Manchester on Colchester Dr. at Yukon Harbor Rd.  

    -73 dB Haystack-S3/AE7SJ
    no Baldi
    no Mirrormont
From Kitsap Fire Station 8 (on the ground, lots of surrounding vegetation)
    no signals

I expect to do an elevated test at Fire Station 8 on Friday.

I can hardly wait to get my Poynting antenna.

73 from Dan at K7MM




________________________________
 From: Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com>
To: Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr at hamwan.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Kitsap County Tests: East Bremerton, West Bremerton, Silverdale
 

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Daniel Ransom <danra995 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bart,
>
> You know about the antenna in my photo--this is good.  I was wondering if it
> was a decent antenna.  I got it for $25 on eBay.

Hi Dan,

I think this is the antenna in the photos (GD5W-28P):
https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Laird+GD5W-28P

There's a comparison of it to some other antennas here:
https://www.hamwan.org/t/tiki-index.php?page=Antenna+Shootout

It looks to be about 3 dB under the Poynting, despite being the same
size. That explains the difference in your numbers to my
models--they're all off by at least 3 dB!

Tom KD7LXL


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