[TowerTalk] Unusual Tri-band Performance ??

[Richard M. Gillingham]

More likely he was smokin' that rope.

Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u at hal-pc.org>
To: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 9:34 AM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Unusual Tri-band Performance ??


>
> Michael J. Donohue VE3YF wrote:
>
> >   I overhead a conversation on 20m the other day where someone said
> > he was using a Cushcraft A3S, which has been modified to act like on
> > 10,15 &20 as a monoband 5 element Long John on a 55'  wide spaced
> > beam. It has on 20m at least a 25+ dB F/B ratio and 13-14 dB forward
> > gain. He won't give up the secret but for a tribander on a 14' boom,
this
> > seems almost too good to be true. Will this put Force-12 and M2 and
> > other makers of large monoband beams out of business?
> >
> > 73 De Mike
> > VE3YF
>
> But, was he using rope in his elements?
>
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
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