[TowerTalk] New antenna?

[Doug Renwick]

Mosley bashing is never ending.
So I had to see for myself.
I was given a Mosley TA33 tribander. It is certainly well built.
I mounted it at 50 ft pointed towards Europe.
I also have a TH7DX at 50 ft that I can point in the same direction.
I did a few receive signal comparisons. Nothing scientific but it gave me a rough idea how the TA33 performs. Generally equal to or slightly less than the TH7DX.
My conclusion is the TA33 is not that bad as some claim and not bad for an old design.

Doug/VA5DX

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV via TowerTalk
Sent: March 30, 2026 5:46 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna?


On 2026-03-30 7:18 PM, Peter Voelpel via TowerTalk wrote:
> Then how comes that they are always providing same or better signal 
> strength then other tribanders?
They are not, as proven by proper range testing.

My first tribander (50 years ago next year) was a Mosley TA36 ... I
quickly replaced it with a set of Hy-Gain antennas (204BA, 155BA,
105BA) and never looked back.  Comparatively, the Mosley was a lead
(HEAVY) dummy load and a set of dipoles performed as well.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2026-03-30 7:18 PM, Peter Voelpel via TowerTalk wrote:
> Then how comes that they are always providing same or better signal strength
> then other tribanders?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
> Brown via TowerTalk
> Sent: Dienstag, 31. März 2026 00:41
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna?
> 
> On 3/30/2026 3:16 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
>> Suggest you get catalog from Mosley and consider one of their monobanders
> if you don’t want traps.
> 
> Monobanders are a great idea IF you have the real estate to rig them.
> Moseley's big tribander came in dead last in the testing that N0AX and
> K7LXC did in 1999. It even had negative gain (dBd -- with respect to a
> dipole) on 15 and 10M, only 0.7 dB on 20M.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
>