[TowerTalk] Has anyone ever done this...

[Rob Frohne]

Hi Nate,

I don't know the details of the TH3Mk3, but I suspect you should be able
to do it.  Get your grid dip meter and tools out, and give it a shot.
Seventeen meters should be pretty easy just by shortening the element
tips.  You could make a 17 meter monobander as well by replacing the
traps with tubing.

73,

Rob, KL7Na
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:17 -0800, Nathaniel Lee wrote:
> Hi All on TT,
> 
> I have a TH3Mk3 hygain tribander that is dangerously close to the scrap heap, and a thought
> occurred, has anyone ever converted one of these to the WARC bands? I suspect that 10 MHZ may be
> out of the question but the others certainly could use the cheap attention. If someone did this,
> how was it done?
> 
> I hate to toss it considering that it gave me St Peter Island on 100w when the rotator
> conveniently died facing South in New England. Especially when there was a large hill IMMEDIATELY
> behind the house to the South.
> 
> One other completely unrelated thought was pulled from the clouds of sleepiness, I found that the
> 40m dipole was noisy and useless, while the 75 full size ground plane hanging off a tree was the
> antenna of choice while working vp6dx on 40m in the wee hours, 10:20z. Thank the antenna gods for
> the Dentron tuner to remove the mysteries beyond the ft857.I figured the "3db" gain would have
> disappeared through the huge mismatch facing the system in general and be in the negative by
> comparison. Why was this?
> 
> Thanks and 73 all,
> 
> Nate
> 
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Nat
> 
> 
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