Hi Mike,
Cubex! http://www.cubex.com/6m.htm
I ordered a tri-band quad with a 3" dia., 30 ft. boom from Cubex'
original owner, Karl Sharping, back in the early 80's. This was before
the advent of the Internet and as such, a phone call got with the
question, "How do you want me to pay you?" got the ball rolling. Karl
said, "I'll ship it today. Just sent me a personal check when you get a
chance." Boy...those days are gone along with most of the quad
manufacturers:
Gotham
Skylane
Lightning Bolt
Gem-Quad
My first quad was a 2 element Gotham featuring a 2" X 2" wooden boom and
bamboo spreaders. One of the biggest thrills of my amateur existence
came when I worked the inventor of the quad, Clarence Moore - W9LZX in
the mid 70's before he passed in 1979. He too was a quad owner and we
rag chewed forever one evening on 20m, talking about, what else? -
quads. We finally wrapped things up as he had to go QRT. A moment
later another ham came on frequency and asked me if I knew who I'd just
worked. I said, "Yeah! W9LZX" He said, "No. Do you know *who* he
is?" I said, "No. Who is he?" He finished with, "He's the engineer
who invented your antenna while working at HCJB in Quito." I just about
fell over. HCJB was the first SW station that I'd ever heard on a old
multi-band Aircastle portable SW receiver.
I'm a firm believer that quads open the band in the morning and close
them down at night. 15m was a dream for me as a kid.
Clarence' legacy lives on today in Crown International -
http://www.crownaudio.com/en-US
73,
Jon Pearl - W4ABC
www.w4abc.com
On 8/30/2016 5:09 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
Wasn't there a company out there making a 6m Quad called the Killer Bee or
something?
Anyways, I also owned a Gem Quad once. I overloaded it by adding WARC, 6m
and even 40m(with coils) to it.
For the 6m part, I extended the boom and made it a 4el Quagi.
I had a 5el yagi above it perhaps 15' higher and at no time (on Es, F2 or
AU, tropo or MS) did I ever see the Quagi louder than the yagi.
The only time the Quagi came into it's own was when it was really raining
(or snowing) hard and there
was S9 precip static on the slightly higher yagi. At those times the Quagi
was either silent or at least
much quieter than the yagi.
Even though it was my own fault that the Gem Quad came down (ice storm and
antenna was very overloaded) I really believe it was just a matter of time.
It had failed a number of times (fiberglas repairs all over the poor beast)
years before I got it)
It was exactly as Kelly (VE4XT) said about VE4VV's,. a real nice antenna in
its own right, but if you have high winds, or as we do here, ice , snow and
wind with vy low temps
then it's just a matter of time before it either needs spreader repairs, or
broken wires soldered or something of that nature. BTDT, have the fiberglas
imbedded in my hands to prove it.
YMMV
Mike VE9AA
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB
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