I bought a Gotham V-80 vertical when I first became a ham in 1962. The
advertised specs never mentioned the need for radials, etc. I did better
"out-of-band" on 40M than "in-band" on the 80M novice band. Got my only OO
report. I also learned not to believe advertised antenna specs ever again.
And for an inexpensive all-band antenna, no one has yet mentioned the
various Hex antennas. All quite good, low cost, and light weight.
73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Bry Carling AF4K
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 16:30
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [Bulk] Re: antenna choices
You could be right. Until somebody tries it this will all be guesswork
regardless of one's
position.
For me personally you will not be catching me buying any multi thousand
dollar antennas
because it is simply not in my budget. I don't resent anyone buying or
selling at whatever
price they wish by the way. I just know there are a lot of hams like me out
here who will install
a used tribander that they paid under $100 for on their tower and like me,
they will be very
grateful that they could. Hopefully the light-hearted nature of my earlier
post was noticed by
some with the Gotham reference (grin!)
Sincere best wishes to all.
On 10 Apr 2015 at 10:07, David Gilbert wrote:
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?
>>
>> <
>>
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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