Back about 1982 I cajoled the co into supplying a tribander Telrex for our big
iron boat. It came when we were in shipyard so I was able to cajole a 4 inch
pipe about 30 long to get mounted with three 2 inch 10 ft long tripods.above
the flying bridge (about 80 ft above the water)
Worked great, biggest MM signal from the S China Sea. Then the wind. We next
had a 2 el 3 bander with no trace of the missing el. Got two more runs out of
that before it became a single el rotatable beam. Even that worked good
Better than the 30 ft vac cap tuned Harris vertical on the same deck. I think
I still have one trap assembly.
Hands down proof horizontal better than vertical but when the final element
went the company wouldn't replace it as it had been rumored I was using it for
ham radio and not weather fax.
That was a fun 4 month tour My replacement tried to make a dipole that would
stand up with the pieces and parts. Best element turned out to be a goodly
long bamboo trunk which tapered 4 to 1.5 inches when cut to length. Note found
out bamboo did not like to be drilled. We learned to love verticals
Got a new Capt who frowned on ham stuff. Charlie the Tuna. Really pissed him
when he couldn't read the Amtor we started to use.
I got off in '89 -- a good ten years and quite glad to leave Charllie the Tuna
behind
Telrex made a good product - had one in NY up for more than ten years
Nobody can make a ham tribander for an LNG Tanker that will live more than a
year.
Earl W7TK
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