[TowerTalk] Re: "Broken Elements"... but not with TH6

[Mike & Coreen Smith]

Here here!
My TH6 has been up since the  70's either here or at  previous owners QTH's
with only a replacement
of some nuts n' bolts and trap end-caps (once) and never suffered an element
failure yet. I sold it once, but missed
it so mch I bought it back 2 years later when I went through a quad one
winter and a smaller wimpier tribander the next winter. The second winter I
had it up at my (now) QTH, I lost every other antenna on the tower, EXCEPT
the
TH6.

A winner!

Mike in snowy, icy, but not too-windy NB

VE9AA

Michael, Coreen & Corey Smith
(VE9AA,  VE9AAA & Little-VE9 to be)
271 Smith Rd
Waterville, NB
E2V 3V6
Canada
http://members.tripod.com/~ve9aa/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2174/

----- Original Message -----
From: <RLVZ@aol.com>
To: <k3nd@yahoo.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:39 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: "Broken Elements"... but not with TH6


>
> That's one of the great advantages of the Hy-Gain TH-6 and TH-7.  They
stay
> together when monobanders and flimsy antennas often fall apart.  73,
Richard-
> NO4S
>
> In a message dated 2/12/02 8:13:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
k3nd@yahoo.com
> writes:
>
> << They sure do! My first yagi was a home made 3 EL 20M
>  on a 20 ft boom.  All this was constructed before we
>  knew anything about taper schedules, wind loading,
>  etc. As I recall, it used only three sizes of aluminum
>  tubing (1.125, 1.00, and .875 inch, all .058 wall).
>  That thing used to literally eat element tips!  Must
>  have replaced 3 - 4 a year.  I didn't have rope in the
>  elements either as no one had filled me in on that
>  trick. Got tired of fixing it (at the top of the
>  tower) so I took it down and sold it. Have had a TH6
>  up since 1978 and haven't lost an element yet. We used
>  to occasionally lose element tips on the Hygain
>  10/15/20 monobanders at W3GM also. >>
>
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