Hey, we don't call them Crushcraft for nothing.
--Lou K2LKK



At 10:30 PM 6/24/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>
>Years ago I had a Mosley SWL vertical and found the beefiness of the
>aluminum better than the Cushcraft R5 or Butternut HF 6V I've had since.
>
>Don't know if Mosley uses  the same aircraft grade tubing in the verticals
>as they use in their yagis, but if so, it would be  pretty strong.  To me,
>the Cushcraft aluminum seems lawn chair grade and the Butternut  somewhat
>better.
>
>I looked at the Mosley site, and noticed that some of the verticals are
>referred to as 1/4 wave with optional radials, but the others aren't called
>1/4 wave.  Perhaps these are considered to be  1/2 wave like the Cushcraft's
>and  they can get buy with no real radial system?  Just like the Cushcraft's
>use those little decoupling  stubs at the antenna base.
>
>73, Steve  KW3A
>
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 4:09 PM
>Subject: mosley verticals
>
>
> > Hi group;
> > Just wondered if anyone had any experience with mosley verticals?  A
> > picture
> > is always a thousand words but it didn't sound like there was a
> > counterpoise
> > but the also said that radials didn't make any significant difference.  I
> > never did find anything on their site that gave me band width info.
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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