Thanks for the feedback from Idaho on antennas Gene (K7TXO). I plan on reading
over your comments again
since you have given me pause to think about the choice of antennas. I have not
had a yagi tri-bander since
1983 when I was stationed at the Marine Corps Base in Albany, Georgia and I
talked the Base Housing Officer
into letting me install a tower in my back yard! My current QTH has a small
backyard because of an irrigation
canal on the south side of my property, so I was looking for an antenna that I
could mount on an aluminum
pole (probably a Penninger radio mast) at about 35 feet or so. If the situation
were otherwise, I would love
to put a tower in the ground again with something like a 6 element Optibeam or
Force 12 yagi. Just day
dreaming on my day off for Memorial Day. Whatever I decide to use to replace my
Force 12 vertical dipole,
it will need to be an antenna at a relative low height and probably on a pole
and not a tower. I have had
the Force 12 vertical dipole up now for almost 5 years with a single set of
dacron guy lines and it works
well and has made it through four Montana winters. At any rate, I do appreciate
your comments about
the DX Engineering hex beam; the great thing about this site other than trading
information about Ten Tec
radios (and I have several) is hearing about what has worked for others whether
it be a keyer or an
antenna. Tnxs Gene & 73s Roger Rippy W7RIP
P.S. There are some manufacturers in Germany that make a very stout pole for
antennas including rotator
brackets on top and the pole is acutally squared off; they appear to be quite
strong. I first saw them on the Opti-Beam
web site. I do not think they are sold in the US and would probably be pretty
expensive to import if not impossible
because they appear to be a single piece and not joined with clamps such as a
Penninger Radio pole.
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