[TowerTalk] Antenna Identification - Help Needed

Dave Thompson thompson at mindspring.com
Sun Mar 20 09:54:49 EDT 2022


I remember New Tronics/Hustler dell a ti-band beam for awhile years ago.  Not sure of the model number.  Hornet started in Oklahoma in the early 1970's.  I have some correspondence fro the gentleman who sold the beams.  The beams he sold used the TB fix(TB-500, TB-1000).  Many bought the TB-500 500 watt version as their first beam.  He sold the beams to Swan and in 1971 I bought the TB-4 for $120 to replace a Mosley TA-36 with 4 meter extension on the driven element that was destroyed by a tornado.  The Hornet TB-1000 was sold by Swan as the TB-4.  The 4 element beam  had W6SAI equal spacing of 8 feet between elements  and the weight of the beam was kept low using cast aluminum element to boom fixtures.  I had to replace one as I tightened down too tightly and Swan sent me s replacement.  I still have the broken fixture.  The beam worked great and I  talked with my friend MP4BIN  on 20 SSB and as I recall it was decent on 15 and 10.
 
W3TMZ sold me a new KLM KT-34X in 1974 and I upgraded the beam to the KT-34XA .  This was a great beam on 20 and 10 but as many found was lacking on 15.  K6MYC told me he corrected that  in the KT-36XA  he sold at M2.  O kept that until 2017 when I sold the beam to NQ4I.
 
73 Dave K4JRB
 
 


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