[TowerTalk] Mosley antenna problems

[Al Williams]

Several posters have offered low swr as an indication that
a particular beam is good.  A 50 ohm resistor would be even
better?

k7puc

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Sarah <w8tts@gwis.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Mosley antenna problems


>
>Being the little kid on the block with my 1st yagi, from Mosley, I though
I'd
>add my $0.02 worth.  Since I have a small city lot I purchased the Mosley
>TA33-JR-N-WARC.  It took a little longer to arrive than I expected, but it
>arrived with all the parts, a set of fair instructions.  Everything was
>predrilled and color coded.  I read over the instructions twice, sat down
ad
>had the antenna together in a few hours.  Got it up on the tower and put
the
>meter to it.  Here is what I got:
>
>    10 Meters - 28.000  1.5/1        15 Meters - 21.225  1.4/1
>                       28.300   1.0/1                           21.300
1.1/1
>                       28.450   1.1/1                           21.450
1.1/1
>                       28.600   1.3/1
>                       28.900   1.5/1        20 Meters - 14.175  1.0/1
>
>14.250  1.1/1
>    12 Meters - 24.930  1.2/1                             14.350  1.6/1
>                       14.990  1.2/1
>
>     17 Meters - 18.110  1.1/1
>                        18.168  1.1/1
>
>The FT-1000MP handles it all with ease.  I'm basically happy.  But, can
>understand the frustration that some of you are having.  It's happened to
me
>with other things.
>
>73 and I hope everything works out.
>
>Ted - W8TTS
>
>
>
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