Yes. You will be quite happy with the performance. Stan, K5GO Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list
Perhaps a much more practical and objective evaluation would be to have someone who has the proper equipment and knowledge of its use to spend the time to determine the exact properties of any loadin
I have 1/2 inch CATV hardline feeding my verticals on 80m 4 Square. I just used about six inches of .625" OD (5/8") x .058" wall tubing slit about 2.5 inches and four times on either end to fit over
Jeff, It is likely in the future Cycle 24 Antenna Products will offer 3/8" diameter fiberglass rod in cut lengths with 150 foot minimum and 250 foot maximum per length -750 feet minimum total order.
If anyone knows someone who has about 60 feet of good, used Rohn 65G that I could buy or trade for (either 10 or 20 foot sections), I would appreciate knowing about it. Thanks...Stan, K5GO Sent from
Perhaps you could just cut a short piece and experiment with it, if it is that important to bend it in the tightest radius possible. Stan, K5GO Sent from my iPad _____________________________________
Barrie, A lot of money can be saved if you build the antenna yourself. Anyone who can assemble an antenna that is in pieces in a box can probably start from scratch and build it using six foot pieces
My opinion, unless you are putting up something bigger than what a TX-438 tower is rated to handle, is that it is a waste of about a hundred bucks to use anything more expensive than a four bolt flan
Barry, In my opinion there is little possibility that you can improve on the beverages you already have using a 2 element Yagi for 20, 15 and 10. You will be very lucky to achieve more than 15 dB of
And regardless of how big the wire is you may on occasion have to "rock the antenna". I think if the wind is blowing just right you will have to do that to get that brake wedge to come out. Stan, K5G
Jorge, Following is the link to the manual on MFJ website http://www.cushcraftamateur.com/pdffiles/XM-240.pdf EG is the SMALLEST diameter tube and is 3/8 inches OD x 36 inches long. EA is the largest
Wow! Very impresive signal strength. Clearly the signal strength was enough that you could have copied yourself with only one pair of antennas and perhaps with only one antenna. Stan, K5GO __________
Guy, I think a horizontal antenna at that low height relative to the frequency might be a waste of time. If you have the room and can go out far enough with ropes, I would go one step farther and put
Cut the coax to a common multiple of 1/2 wave length for as many bands as you can. You can easily get 20-10 with the length you have without losing too much coax and maybe 40-10. It won't help the lo
Just my opinion. Not an engineer. Not sure how far out you can go but one way to help that angle is to use elevated supports given they are strong enough. If it were mine I would just guy it three le
Model this.... Put two mono- band antennas at same height on separate towers with the towers about 1.5 wavelengths apart and the antennas in phase. Look at the plots with the two antennas North or So
I would be OK with something like 35. 70 and 105 but don't think I would want to only have two sets on 130 feet of 25G. I recently guyed my four square towers (80m) for first time (because of a growi
Dan, Glad my memory wasn't "totally" gone. K8CC told me 25 years ago that if I put up two towers about a hundred feet apart and installed 20m antennas on both that I could cover JA and EU (the two di
Steve, Yes. Take a look at the little mono banders we have on our website www.cycle-24.com. On many Yagi antennas you will see one frequency where there is huge front to back. With these designs we h
Rick, Thanks for pointing out that, unlike the tri bander, the gain and pattern are only being shown for the center frequency on the mono banders. We will correct that to be consistent. The website j