"As a personal choice", regardless of where you are located in VE3 land,
a "fixed" tribander will limit access to portions of the US. Im in
Michigan, and find everything between 90 and 280, necessary if I
exclude Alaska and most of Canada, while the stacked pair would take
care of all.
The single, fixed antenna splitting the difference on the US would be a
quick switch, but the sides would quickly fall off to be filled in by
the stack. Me? Even with the land and budget, I doubt I'd go for more
than a stacked pair
Even in NE VE3, you have between 90 and 270 or 20 for the US.
73
Roger (K8RI)
On 7/17/2016 Sunday 3:45 PM, Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk wrote:
A third tribander is unnecessary if your stack matching device allows to feed
the antennas out of phase. My first inclination was to stack 3 antennas and
then came across the microHam stacking device which does have BOP capability.
HFTA determined that I don't need a third tribander low on the tower.
That said, I do plan on having a third tribander, fixed on the USA (my station
is in VE3 so working the USA brings me tons of easy points).
Rudy N2WQ
Sent using a tiny keyboard. Please excuse brevity, typos, or inappropriate
autocorrect.
On Jul 17, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net> wrote:
And with tribanders a three high stack may not be worth the investment and
complexity. Another choice might be 2x 20m monobanders as a stack and a fixed
tribander on US for the times 15 or 10 (ha) open. Or just a 15m monobander.
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