[TowerTalk] Converting 3 el to 2el

[Dino Darling]

Keep the reflector and get rid of the director....if you must go this route.

Dino

At 02:48 PM 5/13/2008, John Geiger wrote:

>Here is a question I should know the answer for, but
>just can't some up with it right now.  Must be brain
>fried from grading papers and getting final grades
>ready.
>
>My current HF antenna was damaged in a storm last
>week, and repair efforts haven't lead to pre-storm
>performance, so I am looking for a replacement.  I
>really only have room for a 2 element tribander, if I
>go that route.  However, these are kind of rare to
>find, and 3 element ones seem much more available.
>What would happen performancewise if I took a 3
>element and just cut off the boom and director in
>front of the driven element, making it a 2 element
>tribander?  Will this work?  Would performance be down
>relative to a 2 element tribander?
>
>73s John AA5JG
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