#Antenna Comparison

Comparing antennas with contest statistics means using the numbers from your own logs to judge whether a change on the tower or in the garden helped. Useful measures include QSOs by band, QSOs by continent, beam heading and distance, always compared between the same contest in different years. A single contest is rarely proof, because propagation and activity change, so the comparison needs care and patience. Still, a few years of data can show a clear trend that no single weekend can. The articles under this tag explain how to read these figures fairly.