Arrow Antennas - Horrible Performers
... from what I have read, a 2.65db loss of signal using Arrow's
crappy duplexer ...
Unless an Arrow Antenna performance report beings with, "My Motorola test equipment - certified within the last year - indicates ... [such- and-such performance characteristics] ... " - this that post is worthless to me.
And should be worthless to anyone demanding the best-available information.
And such mis-information shouldn't be passed on to anyone else. And messagegroup moderators should delete such undocumented tripe.
Needless to say, I haven't read much of the recent "Arrow Performance" threads. Just aren't worth my time.
Just my opinion, of course. I have been wrong.
I couldn't ask for - nor imagine - better performance from my Arrow Antennas than what I am enjoying now. They prove themselves pass after pass, demo after demo ....
Clint Bradford West coast curmudgeon http://www.work-sat.com
Clint,
What do you have against the anritsu equipment I used to counter the 2.65dB claim? I found UHF to be about a half dB and VHF to be better than that and when I checked the calibration it was within a tenth of a dB.
Charles Clint Bradford wrote:
... from what I have read, a 2.65db loss of signal using Arrow's
crappy duplexer ...
Unless an Arrow Antenna performance report beings with, "My Motorola test equipment - certified within the last year - indicates ... [such- and-such performance characteristics] ... " - this that post is worthless to me.
And should be worthless to anyone demanding the best-available information.
And such mis-information shouldn't be passed on to anyone else. And messagegroup moderators should delete such undocumented tripe.
Needless to say, I haven't read much of the recent "Arrow Performance" threads. Just aren't worth my time.
Just my opinion, of course. I have been wrong.
I couldn't ask for - nor imagine - better performance from my Arrow Antennas than what I am enjoying now. They prove themselves pass after pass, demo after demo ....
Clint Bradford West coast curmudgeon http://www.work-sat.com
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... What do you have against the Anritsu equipment ...
Absolutely nothing. They make excellent test and measurement equipment.
... I used to counter the 2.65dB claim?
Excuse me for missing your post!
... I found UHF to be about a half dB and VHF to be better than
that and when I checked the calibration it was within a tenth of a dB ...
THAT is much closer to reality. And THANK YOU for adding sanity and "measured" results to this conversation.
Charles - I had a customer return an Arrow antenna, ranting and raving that it wasn't working. What I discovered was that he "accidentally" sent about 100W into the duplexer, burning out its first inductor. VHF performance was miserable ... UHF seemed OK. But the Arrow - in HIS mind - failed.
And so it goes ....
Clint, K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com
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