On 10/24/2015 9:49 AM, Daniel Danny Horvat wrote:
Verticals, R5/R7 R6000 R8 and also clones AV620, AV640 are IMO better
than 43 foot verticals or even worse CHA250 and clone verticals.
There are number of people having 300 plus DXCC countries done with
these verticals and they found them great for small and no radial
fieldantennas.
Absolutely! I've been using nothing but an R5, R7 or R6000 and low
dipoles (N6BT Q51 at 20' for 20-10 and trapped 160/80/40 inverted V
at 40') ever since moving to Florida. The last two years I was #2
in the world in CQ's DX Marathon - "100W, basic antennas" class and
have made DXCC Honor Roll (Mixed and CW).
Sure - a good Yagi high in the air would be better (anyone know of a
used HDX-555MDPL or HDX-572MDPL available at a reasonable price?) but
given the low visual profile and ease of installation, the R5, R7,
R6000, R7000, and R8 are hard to beat.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 10/24/2015 9:49 AM, Daniel Danny Horvat wrote:
Roger,
There is no R6 antenna, there is a R-6000 antenna which I designed for
Cushcraft followed by R8 antenna which was covered in K7LXC & N0AX report
with high score.
MFJ/HyGain did copy the design just few months after R6000 was advertised
and they implemented their known series LC resonators instead parallel LC
traps.
I was against implementing a 80m on R8 vertical back then (1998) due low
efficiency and narrow bandwidth. MFJ has no problem to claim anything just
to sell.
Verticals, R5/R7 R6000 R8 and also clones AV620, AV640 are IMO better than
43 foot verticals or even worse CHA250 and clone verticals.
There are number of people having 300 plus DXCC countries done with these
verticals and they found them great for small and no radial field antennas.
There are many claims about many antennas out there which do not meet the
truth but as mentioned in one post, even light bulb can radiate.
73 Danny N4EXA aka E73M
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Danny Horvat, E73M
Antennas & Accessories
www.MyAntennas.com
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