If the prices were that out of line relative to the costs of
designing/building/marketing ham antennas, I suspect that we'd have more
companies in the business and fewer consolidations. I don't think it's
a growing market.
Dave AB7E
On 4/10/2015 8:08 AM, Bry Carling wrote:
It seems like very few antennas are affordable to the average ham.
It seems like they need some competition. With prices in the multiple thousands
of dollars for a few aluminum tubes somebody could make lot of money by being
less expensive...
I would call them GOTHAM BEAMS as a nod to history!!
Best regards - Brian Carling
AF4K Crystals Co.
117 Sterling Pine St.
Sanford, FL 32773
Tel: +USA 321-262-5471
On Apr 10, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Per Molund <pmolund@gmail.com> wrote:
What about Ultrabeam UB-1040DX?
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http://www.ultrabeam.it/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=72&lang=en
I know, not cheap or American, but still an alternative.
Per LA9XKA
2015-04-10 13:34 GMT+02:00 Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>:
I'm wondering if there have been any attempts at more than 4 element
SteppIR's?
I'm happy with my 4L but it would be nice to have some more smoke. What
might be interesting are some longer boom more limited band combinations,
with higher performance e.g. 6 L on 15/12/10 or 5 L on 20/17 or 6 L on
17/12 on 42' boom (the one I want, since my modeling so far for an
interlaced 5/5 design isn't succeeding).
Another advantage of limiting the band combinations is that there isn't as
much compromise when stacking them. Also, there would be less tower
loading, fewer rotators, etc. than conventional 3 band contest stacks.
However, there remains the tuning delay when QSYing or band changing,
which is a bit of a problem in contest S&P & mult chasing.
Grant KZ1W
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