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Hex beam heights
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Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:06:36 -0230
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Hi Steve and Jim: 

What are the heights of your hexs'? I'm going to be constructing a storage shed in a month and on it I'm going to mount my 20 foot tall 2 piece mast, which is going to hole up 1 end of a 160M long wire. I may later lift that mast up another 5 feet on a platform and rotator to support a hex beam. 
Zero Five Antennas now has a HQ coil mod for my vertical giving it better performance on 16/40M, dunno how that could be better on 40, with the sacrafice of the 30/10M bands. I may purchase this coil later on and put up a hex. Although great antennas, I'm scared off by a Steppir, Mosley 67B and Force 12 Delta. These antenni alone would cost me in access of 4500CAN plus the suitable tower and rotator, call it another 3500. I could probably go with the hex and rotator solution for a quarter of that and the gain figures are similar. Plus its that time a year again when storms like to visit NL and play around with aluminium. LOL 3 years ago this month, I lost my tower. 
The 1ST storm is visiting this sat.  Should be on the air tm night, listen out for me on 40M. 

73: 
Mike DE VO1AX

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