Hi Steve;
I have been looking at the miniquad web site. Are you using the 2 or 3
element version?  This was the first I had heard of the three element
version.  How are you supporting your push up mast.  No chance it is self
supporting?  Its a big improvement to see that these spokes bend rather than
break off.  The old PA version broke off if you looked at them wrong.  How
much tune up was there?  E ham seemed to have some conflicting info, some
people put it together and away they went, others had lots of tuning.  The
jury seems out on the mk36 three element version.
73
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: mini-quad


> Hi Rich,
>
>
> Mine will cover all the ssb portion of 20. The  bottom 5 khz 14.150 - 155
> swr is 2:1   Not sure about the  double dip you mention, but mine is flat
> at
> 14.200  rising a bit higher in the band but not  higher than  1.4 and
> dropping  again  to 1.2 at the top of the band.   I use the  tuner for cw
> portion.
>
> Tying this in with  the recent thread about  do-it-yourself  antenna
> installation, my main reason for going  with this antenna  was that I
> wanted
> something  small and light that I could install myself on a push-up mast
> in
> the back yard (23 feet).  I went with a small tv rotator that is too light
> to turn my Mosley.   I didn't want to deal with  the extra weight  of the
> Ham IV  rotor I have packed away here right now.  Also more money to make
> the Ham IV  accessible.   The tv rotor has a remote control that lets me
> punch in  a 3 digit compass heading and  the rotor  turns to it.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A