[TowerTalk] N6BT, Force12inc and JK Antennas

[john at kk9a.com]

Bummer, I was not aware that DX Engineering discontinued the TX38. I
know that a lot of work went into optimizing this yagi for all three
bands and it also had four 10m elements. I think it would have been a
perfect contest expedition antenna. 

John KK9A 

On 2014-11-21 10:26, Kelly Taylor wrote: 

> The TX-38 was sold to DX Engineering and was subsequently discontinued. It
> was expensive for only having three bands (it was almost Bencher Skyhawk
> money), but it did look like a fabulous design, particularly with four
> elements on 10.
> 
> The people who were lucky enough to get one rave about it, but it appears
> there's not enough demand for pure tribanders any more. People want five
> bands. 
> 
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
> 
> On 11/21/14 9:16 AM, "john at kk9a.com" <john at kk9a.com> wrote:
> 
>> Cycle-24's TX38 looks like it would also be a great expedition antenna however the original poster was looking for a five band beam. The C3 and the TX38 are not. John KK9A To: <towertalk at contesting.com> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] N6BT, Force12inc and JK Antennas From: "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered at earthlink.net> Reply-to: sawyered at earthlink.net Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:18:07 -0500 The C3 is the best short boom tribander out there in my opinion. I have used them around the world. They are a clean pattern, smooth SWR across the full band performer. At the end of the day, the gain available is a function of boom length primarily. On 15 and 20, you are going to help yourself by stuffing another element on a short boom. On 10M, the argument could be made that another element would add value to this antenna, but the antenna works as a nice package. On 12 and 17 - its just a rotary dipole essentially - so if that's someone's interest, this isn't the antenna for you. Nice advantage for
DXpeditions, you can break this baby down into a golf case. And there are no finicky little motors and control lines to worry about. 73 Ed N1UR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk at contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk [1]

 

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