Blake,
This is a most ridiculous statement! Leave the trap caps off if you want
....and forget about antewnna performance. The caps are added capacitance
to tune the traps. If they are gone, all bets are off!
Joe
At 06:49 PM 3/6/2003 -0500, Blake Meinecke wrote:
>Hygain/MFJ has a "plastic kit". Ridiculously expensive though. Leave the
>caps off, it won't hurt. Spend the saved money on something more important.
>
>Blake N4GI
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Claudio Fernandez" <cgfernandez@comnet.com.ar>
>To: "Towertalk submital" <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:36 PM
>Subject: [TowerTalk] TH3 trap-cap
>
>
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Last week I bought a vintage Hy-Gain TH3MK4 thundebird antenna
> > (build around 1970), I'm trying to rebuild it and I'm needing the
> > trap-caps.....
> >
> > Could somebody tell me is that trap-cap are still available,? I couldn't
> > found the part number on the antenna's manual.
> >
> > Many Thanks
> >
> > Claudio N1LU
> >
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