[UK-CONTEST] VHF beams

[John Lemay]

Not much mention of Tonna, until now. 

In the past, I've found that the aluminium seems to corrode quite quickly,
and the plastic parts tend to deteriorate in the sun (splits in the driven
element moulding are common). So that only leaves you with an N Type socket
hanging on the end of the feeder !

These comments largely relate to relatively old models; maybe the current
range is improved. In terms of "gain per buck" they're pretty good.

John G4ZTR


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Knowles
Sent: 08 May 2009 20:15
To: Andy Swiffin; uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] VHF beams

I bought a moonraker 70cm beam.  It too was equipped with a gamma-match that

didn't.  Also, the design was such that the feeder exited in line with the 
gamma arm on the other side of the boom, parallel with and about 2cm away 
from the driven element!  I now have a Tonna!

Steve  G3UFY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 9:13 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] VHF beams


> Hi
> Sorry to be slightly OT, but  what "does the team think" about Moonraker 
> ZL specials for 2M, say the 12ZL versus their 11ele standard yagi?  Do ZL 
> specials _really_ work as claimed?
>
> If you wouldn't buy moonraker, what would you buy?
>
> I'm having to re-equip with antennas for 6, 4 and 2 and will be on for the

> contests "real soon now".  (so its not really OT at all :-)
>
> 73
> Andy
> gm8oeg
>
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