[TowerTalk] [Bulk] Re: antenna choices

[Per Molund]

What about Ultrabeam UB-1040DX?

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I know, not cheap or American, but still an alternative.

Per LA9XKA

2015-04-10 13:34 GMT+02:00 Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net>:

> I'm wondering if there have been any attempts at more than 4 element
> SteppIR's?
>
> I'm happy with my 4L but it would be nice to have some more smoke. What
> might be interesting are some longer boom more limited band combinations,
> with higher performance e.g.  6 L on 15/12/10 or 5 L on 20/17 or 6 L on
> 17/12 on 42' boom (the one I want, since my modeling so far for an
> interlaced 5/5 design isn't succeeding).
>
> Another advantage of limiting the band combinations is that there isn't as
> much compromise when stacking them.  Also, there would be less tower
> loading, fewer rotators, etc. than conventional 3 band contest stacks.
> However, there remains the tuning delay when QSYing or band changing,
> which is a bit of a problem in contest S&P & mult chasing.
>
> Grant KZ1W