Re: [TowerTalk] 3 element Cushcraft 6 meter beam.

[ARTHUR BERNSTEIN via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>]

I’ve been using the Cushcraft A50-3 for about a year. Run 500 watts, mostly 
with ft8 duty cycle. Works as well or as poorly as 3 elements on 6 ft. Boom 
should. Construction is not heavy duty. SO-239 should be OK for 1kw at this 
frequency. But of advice, carefully adjust the gamma match for your primary 
band area. It’s fairly broad, but mine has an SWR of 1.7/1 over perhaps 500 
kHz. I guess I was too lazy to more precisely adjust the gamma. Not a big deal.
Art., N2KA 

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