I had one of these in the late 80's.  Never got it up in the air.  I still
had some usable vision then and put it together ok, but  it was a job and a
half.  This thing has between 1 and 2 bizillion parts.  I've also heard they
are a bear to tune.  Dumped it and went with a Mosley TA 33 and never looked
back.

At this QTH the Mosley is  sleeping in the basement and I am using one of
the mini quads from Canada.  Not cheap, and of course a compromise, but
seems to work well at the towering height of 23 feet on a push up mast in
the back yard.   Also much easier to assemble.

Good luck, Steve KW3A
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:50 PM
Subject: butternut


> Hi folks;
> I had the day off and was looking at antenna prices and I'm still
recovering
> from sticker shock.  Has anyone here used the butternut mini-beam hf5b?
> What luck did you have and how was assembly?
> Rich
>
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