The hex beams are very, very popular. You can buy a commercial one for around
450 or $500. And you can also make a homebrew one for even less.
Best regards - Brian Carling
AF4K
> On Apr 10, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Larry Banks <larryb.w1dyj@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> 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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