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Hi Steve;
I have been looking at the miniquad web site. Are you using the 2 or 3
element version? This was the first I had heard of the three element
version. How are you supporting your push up mast. No chance it is self
supporting? Its a big improvement to see that these spokes bend rather than
break off. The old PA version broke off if you looked at them wrong. How
much tune up was there? E ham seemed to have some conflicting info, some
people put it together and away they went, others had lots of tuning. The
jury seems out on the mk36 three element version.
73
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: mini-quad
> Hi Rich,
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>
> Mine will cover all the ssb portion of 20. The bottom 5 khz 14.150 - 155
> swr is 2:1 Not sure about the double dip you mention, but mine is flat
> at
> 14.200 rising a bit higher in the band but not higher than 1.4 and
> dropping again to 1.2 at the top of the band. I use the tuner for cw
> portion.
>
> Tying this in with the recent thread about do-it-yourself antenna
> installation, my main reason for going with this antenna was that I
> wanted
> something small and light that I could install myself on a push-up mast
> in
> the back yard (23 feet). I went with a small tv rotator that is too light
> to turn my Mosley. I didn't want to deal with the extra weight of the
> Ham IV rotor I have packed away here right now. Also more money to make
> the Ham IV accessible. The tv rotor has a remote control that lets me
> punch in a 3 digit compass heading and the rotor turns to it.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
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