I am currently limited to a G5RV for HF following the demise of a miniquad I was using. I am looking at getting a Mosley 2 element tribander, but I can't get it up very high right now-maybe 25 feet o
John, I have a G5RV at 45', and a Cushcraft A3 tribander ( 3 ele) at 25'. I can tell you for DX, the G5RV works as well, if not better at times, than the low tribander. Stateside stuff, the tribander
I think a 2 el tribander will beat the pants off a G5RV on 10 15 and 20, even at 25 feet. On those bands the G5RV pattern is complex, and the station you are trying to work could be in a deep null. I
Run a simple model - then look at the patterns. That should help you decide. As an alternative, you can look at using a quad. As I recall, it performs as well, or nearly so, as a 3 element Yagi. It a
John, I have a 2-element home-built Broadband Hexbeam at 20ft and a 132ft centre-fed doublet with its apex at 20ft. The Hexbeam consistently outperforms the doublet on 14MHz and up. There's an audio
Dave, Just to be pedantic ...... .... the 132ft doublet IS a dipole (it has 2 elements), and it IS resonant on 20m - it just happens to be 4 half-waves instead of one :) And the 132ft doublet in its
Dave, 1) The doublet was fed with a short length of open-wire and correctly matched through a Palstar balanced ATU. 2) The AGC on the receiver was OFF, and the RF GAIN backed off to preserve linearit
Hi John Go for the 2 element jobbie. I have a 2 element monobander for 20 and it is only about 25-30 feet high and works pretty good! I have an all band center fed antenna here and the 2 el always ou
Or go with a 2 ele SteppIR. You can get it with a rotatable 40/30 option that will still work ok at that height plus give you 20-6 including 17,12. There is probably a fairly long lead time. Hi John
Hello Steve... I think it's fair to remind folks that your "doublet" was configured as an inverted vee, not a flat top. IMHO, in that configuration, I would normally expect to see less gain than a fl
I have used a 2 element Moxon beam at 30 feet up for 20 and up...it beats the pants off the doublet at 50 feet. Quieter and soem serious F/B...Moxon's are noted for working well even at heights of 3/