[CQ-Contest] Subject: Antenna question

[Art Searle W2NRA]

Hi Tony,

You might try emailing Mosley.  Maybe they still have documentation on that
antenna.  You should be able to find their email address at:

http://www.mosley-electronics.com

73 Art W2NRA

>I have had an 8 element 10 meter beam on a 40' boom - unopened for several
>years.  The outside of the 
>shipping tube was marked "Moseley" .  Yesterday I finally unpacked the
>antenna since the cardboard
>tube was soaking wet after all the rain we've had here in Virginia and
>found the instruction manual but
>it didn't identify the manufacturer - only the date February 1976 - it's
>been around awhile - I bought it from
>a SK estate.
>
>
>Anyway, today I did a search on Google using the model number M108C and
>found that these antennas
>are still being sold by a company called MACO which builds CB antennas!
>Did they buy the design
>for these yagis from Moseley?  Does anyone know?
>The antenna appears to be high quaility - all the hardware and tubing is
>like new even after 35 years in
>a the cardboard container and under very humid conditions here in VA for
>some period of time.  The manual
>shows element lengths from 26 to 30 MHZ so it was certainly built to
>operate on CB frequencies.  I'm sure
>with some modeling it will be a very good antenna since everything is
>totally adjustable.
>Anyway, just curious about any connection between Moseley and the new > >
company???
>
> Tony Rogozinski
> W4OI/HK1AR