Felipe, I am using a home-brew six band quad: four elements on 10-20M
and seven on 6M all on a 24 foot (7.3 meter boom). It was modeled on
EZNEC before construction. I can forward my data to you, if you're
interested.
73, Joe
K2XX
Felipe Ceglia wrote:
>Dear fellow hams,
>
>I am wondering about building a 5 element, 5 band cubical quad beam.
>
>I've taken a look at antenna books 3 band/5 element project, and also on LB
>Cebik's pages about quads.
>I've also made some eznec models, adding 17/12m elements on the antenna
>book's project.
>
>As I could not find any refeences to the antenna book's project on google,
>I wonder if someone have a tested project for such a beam, have ever used
>one, loves or hates it, etc...
>
>Right now I have a 3 element, 3 band brazilian made antenna (copy of a 70's
>mosley beam), with 3 extra elements added obeying the dimensions for the
>commercial 6 elements version of this very beam. (3 el. 20m/ 3 el. 15m/ 4
>el. 10m)
>This beams works somehow nicely, but it uses traps, its a pretty old
>project and... extra gain and bands are always welcome.
>
>Looking forward to your comments, and 73,
>
>Felipe - PY1NB
>Teresopolis - RJ - Brasil
>http://www.dxwatch.com
>
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