I've owned a Hy-Gain Explorer 14 and now have a Cushcraft X-9. Both worked
on 12M; the EX-14 even had some F/B. Only used them a few times to work
DXpeditions when another antenna was not available.
Neither worked on 17M. I'm sure the beta match on the EX-14 looked like a
short circuit across the high impedance of the off-resonance d.e. The X-9
with it's log cell loaded up OK on 17M, but was quite deaf, so I suspect the
radiation pattern was very high angle.
Gary
K9AY
> What is the performance of your typical 20/15/10m tribander like on 12m
> and 17m when you run it on those bands with a tuner? Does it show gain or
> loss relative to a dipole on those bands? Is the radiation pattern fairly
> skewed?
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>
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