Alan,
As much as I love my Hex, it is what it is. For all the positives, it
is still just a 2 element close spaced antenna. It's not magic, and
not the answer for everyone. Our friend Mike on this list will have
his on a 60 foot tower sometime. If I had the wherewithal to have a
60 foot tower, I think I would have a lot more antenna up there than a hex.
I like the multiband aspect, and the fact that you can get by without
a tower and all that is involved with it. Also no traps, but at the
end of the day, it is still a 2 element beam.
73, Steve KW3A
On 4/22/2015 10:43 AM, Alan R. Downing wrote:
> One thing that I have noticed about hex beams is that they are never used by
> the mainstream DX and/or contest crowd. This leads me to believe that there
> is something inherent about the basic design that prevents the antennas from
> being as high performance as the standard long boom monobanders. With the
> exception of SteppIrs, the DX and contest gurus don't even use multi-band
> yagis; their stations are always built with monoband yagis, again with the
> exception of SteppIrs. The reason that a sizeable fraction of this crowd
> use SteppIrs is because the SteppIr yagi is always a mono-bander because the
> elements are continually adjusted to give a perfectly flat SWR on the
> frequency being used. The standard multi-band yagi uses different
> combinations of their elements for different bands. However, the elements
> not being used on a particular band are physically still present, unlike the
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> the hex beam by the ultra-high performance crowd. If any of the upper crust
> guys are using hex beams, I haven't run into any of them yet. As well as I
> do with my DB-36, I can't hold a candle to the big boys. Of course, when
> Stan has installed the remote access subsystem at his Florida farm complex,
> I will be able use it instead of relying on my own station here in Phoenix.
> Boy is that going to be fun!
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