Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:05:39 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Hi Rich, I have a four element SteppIR and am very pleased. I replaced a well designed 10 element triband yagi - Bencher Skyhawk (which by the way is still for sale - $300 in excellent condition). Th
Nice station! Your SteppIR must have the complicated matching network to work for all bands since element positioning is a compromise with the design. This network is lossy. By contrast, a Force 12
At 02:05 PM 6/22/2004 -0400, Tom Jednacz wrote: A log periodic antenna is a compromise in order to cover a wide frequency range while providing an acceptable SWR in the ham bands. Acceptable SWR over
Sounds like Force 12 propaganda...check their web site. ;-) Then check the SteppIR web site. Interesting comparisons. My momma always told me not to step on someone to make myself look taller. My Ste
Jim Lux makes some very good points with reference to LPDA's. I run two stacked LPDAs on 62 ft long booms, 18E each, independently rotatable, that cover 14 - 30 MHz. They are stacked at 55 and 110 fe
blah....and a great antenna: SteppIR 4 element with 2 passive elements for 6m. Another nice station! buy it....right? Touché' Keith _______________________________________________ See: http:/
The 'original' design of the LPDA [Dr. Duhamel - Collins Radio] used TWO sections in an 'arrow' configuration .. that is .. the longer elements were 'stacked' considerably farther apart than the shor
Reight Keith. Jos blah....and a great antenna: SteppIR 4 element with 2 passive elements for 6m. Another nice station! buy it....right? Touché' Keith __________________________________________
their log about the higher gain at each elements is a good Perhaps they will, but I doubt it. The log retains the advantage of wide bandwidth and no tuning time. Keep in mind commercial installation
The LPDA I used on KH3 in 1990 had no maintenance for 30 years when I showed up. It was fixed to USA. Check results in 1990 ARRL DX contests and you can see how well it worked, still no further maint
According to the manual with my Steppir the matching circuit is a Jerry Sevick design 2:1 balun on a 2 1/4 inch ferrite core. It sounds reasonably simple and low loss to me. How much does the Force 1
Read further and you will find lots of comments from many on this list. Congrats on your purchase. A friend of mine recently obtained the same antenna and is quite pleased with its performance. Howev