[CQ-Contest] Re: WPX & "whats a tribander?"

[Thomas R. Williams]

The rules state that you may use only a single tribander, therefore no
stacks allowed. Of course there is a huge difference in tribanders -
from the Butternut mini beam to the Force 12 XR series. I use a TH6DXX
at 48'.

73,
Tom N2CU <><


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>From Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc at dialup.mplik.ru  Mon May  8 15:45:31 2000
From: Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc at dialup.mplik.ru (Igor Sokolov)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 20:45:31 +0600
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: WPX & "whats a tribander?"
References: <3916AD82.6C29FE35 at buffnet.net>
Message-ID: <00dd01bfb8fc$150b6180$67a7fea9 at dialup.mplik.ru>


> The rules state that you may use only a single tribander, therefore no
> stacks allowed. Of course there is a huge difference in tribanders -
> from the Butternut mini beam to the Force 12 XR series. I use a TH6DXX
> at 48'.
>
> 73,
> Tom N2CU <><
Unless there is clear definition of a "tribander" exists I do not see much
difference between the two stacked tribenders (which you can nickname a
tribander with the split boom)  and the one with the boom length equal to
the sum of the above two stacked tribanders. I still believe that the
essence of the tribander is the compromise spacing and shortened elements
rather then  method of feeding. I am not really concerned about cheaters in
WPX. I am just trying to figure out the definition of a tribender in order
to formulate the antenna requirements for WRTC style contest which we are
going to have locally.

73,
Igor, UA9CDC


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