Richard,

I'm the guilty party.   Using the MQ 24SR made by TGM

http://www3.sympatico.ca/tgmc/

I had one of the Butterfly beams when  they first came out, but never got it 
up and sold it in favor of a Mosley TA 33M.   Like everything from Butternut 
it was a  pain to put together and promised to be a double pain to tune. 
If I had the support structure here, the Mosley would be up anot the Mini 
Quad.

Regarding the radials for the vertical?   The demensions for the  stub tuned 
radials can be found on the Bencher site in PDF.  As I remember it was  a 
hand drawn diagram and I doubt if a screen reader would  read it.   The twin 
lead is notched at various points and  measurements depend on the VF of the 
twin lead.  This works as  low as 40 meters, although it can load on 80, but 
you should add at least 1  wire for that band, and more is better.   If you 
go ground mounted, lengths aren't critical and a lot of short  radials will 
do a good job.

73, Steve KW3A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:27 PM
Subject: mini-beams


> Hi;
> While playing with antenna reviews I was looking at small beams such as 
> the
> hf5b.  Has anyone here used one?
> Someone here was using the Canadian version of the old miniquad.  Is it
> still in production and what is the manufacturer and model number?
> Richard
>
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