You mean operate on >1 band simultaneously "with good performance". I'm sure it will radiate or receive on any frequency, just not well <grin>. Hey... since it will tune 6m, maybe you could claim it'
2 active elements on 15 & 20 meters, with 3 elements on 10-m. So I don't see where the SteppIR has "half the elements" nor is comparable "apples to apples" with a C3E. The comparison is further off
NM5G added: That's a tribander plus something for 40, being used on one band of the tribander & 40 at the same time. I mean using two bands of the tribander at the same time. 73, VR2BrettGraham _____
Brett, You hit on the one downside I've found with my 4-element SteppIR. An interlaced yagi with multiple feedlines would allow SO2R operation from that same yagi. But, even that only gets you so far
NI1N added: Yes, beaming one direction on two bands sometimes is not helpful. That's why - along with trying to avoid interaction - the SteppIR perpendicular to the beam is a great solution when the
SteppIR has another advantage, at least here oceanfront. My 3 element SteppIR has been up almost three years now, direct oceanfront, and works just like it did when I first put it up. During that sam
Salt air has got to be murder on antennas, towers, and feed lines. The way below zero temps in the mountains around here do weird things to everything. I have seen coax snap when frozen to 45 below.
But, isn't the C3 really a set of optimized two-element yagis co-located on the same boom? Isn't the effective boom length of the C3 substantially shorter than the overall length, at least on 15m and
While the C3 may be a set of two element antennas located on a common boom, its turning radius and boom length are larger than the three element SteppIR. When looking at an antenna, I look at perform