[TowerTalk] [Bulk] Re: antenna choices

[David Gilbert]

If the prices were that out of line relative to the costs of 
designing/building/marketing ham antennas, I suspect that we'd have more 
companies in the business and fewer consolidations.  I don't think it's 
a growing market.

Dave   AB7E


On 4/10/2015 8:08 AM, Bry Carling wrote:
> It seems like very few antennas are affordable to the average ham.
>
> It seems like they need some competition. With prices in the multiple thousands of dollars for a few aluminum tubes somebody could make lot of money by being less expensive...
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> I would call them GOTHAM BEAMS as a nod to history!!
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> Best regards - Brian Carling
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>> On Apr 10, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Per Molund <pmolund at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What about Ultrabeam UB-1040DX?
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>> <
>> http://www.ultrabeam.it/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=72&lang=en
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>> I know, not cheap or American, but still an alternative.
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>> Per LA9XKA
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>> 2015-04-10 13:34 GMT+02:00 Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net>:
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>>> 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
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