Hello Steve, are you saying that the Hex Beams come with their own mast?  To
me that sounds like a very serious flaw.  Most hams put multiple antennas on
their masts.  It would be much better if the Hex Beam came with a bracket
that would mount on the user's mast, and then everything could connect to
it.  That way you could use a 30 foot mast sticking up out of the rotor if
you wanted.  For example, my SteppIr DB36 is mounted on the mast just a few
feet above the thrust bearing, and 7 or 8 feet above it my six meter M
Square yagi is mounted.  I wouldn't be able to do that if I had a Hex Beam
that couldn't be attached to the bottom of my mast.

Alan - N7MIT




Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ

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Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 10:07 AM
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Subject: Re: another hex beam question

Mike,

In the ones I'm familiar with, you can't mount an antenna above the hex. 
   The mounting flange from which all the spreaders emanate mounts to 
the mast.   Above this flange is the center post, which  has all the 
mounting lugs for the  wire connections, the coax connector, and at the 
very top is the eye bolt  to which all the  cords attach.  These cords 
  go to the spreader tips.

Of course, someone could have developed  a different way of doing things 
and forgot to tell me.

73, Steve  KW3A


On 9/18/2015 12:37 PM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Hey Hexers:
>
> Is it possible to mount a hex beam on a mast then mount a 2ND on the same
mast but above it? Say if you had a 40M beam. I know you can now buy 40 hexs
but something like that up here might have some problems with the weather
due to its huge size.
> I really like the Mosley SF-402A which is a shortened 2 element 40M beam
on a 14 foot boom and it weighs 48LBS at 699USC, throw in a 6 band hex for
the same price and you gotta nice antenna system for half the cost of a
steppir DB-18 or 2 3rds the cost of a Mosley 67B or Force 12 Delta 4XSL.
These are the antennas I'm kicking tires on. As for the Mosely SF-402A, it
has a forward gain of 3.9DB and a front to back of 15DB. Get a 6DB forward
gain average on the hex, pretty good performance.
>
> 73:
> Mike DE VO1AX
>