Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:34:35 -0500 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Hi Steve;
Thanks for the info. How was the band-width on 20 meters? I believe you
said you had it up on a push up mast? How high was the mast? Did you find
the swr changed as you turned the antenna? The miniquad was lots of years
ago but I vaguely recall that one problem I had was the swr changed
significantly as I turned the antenna. At the time I suspected that it was
because the neighbors house was significantly higher but that was very much
a guess.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: mini-beams
Richard,
I'm the guilty party. Using the MQ 24SR made by TGM
http://www3.sympatico.ca/tgmc/
I had one of the Butterfly beams when they first came out, but never got it
up and sold it in favor of a Mosley TA 33M. Like everything from Butternut
it was a pain to put together and promised to be a double pain to tune.
If I had the support structure here, the Mosley would be up anot the Mini
Quad.
Regarding the radials for the vertical? The demensions for the stub tuned
radials can be found on the Bencher site in PDF. As I remember it was a
hand drawn diagram and I doubt if a screen reader would read it. The twin
lead is notched at various points and measurements depend on the VF of the
twin lead. This works as low as 40 meters, although it can load on 80, but
you should add at least 1 wire for that band, and more is better. If you
go ground mounted, lengths aren't critical and a lot of short radials will
do a good job.
73, Steve KW3A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:27 PM
Subject: mini-beams
> Hi;
> While playing with antenna reviews I was looking at small beams such as
> the
> hf5b. Has anyone here used one?
> Someone here was using the Canadian version of the old miniquad. Is it
> still in production and what is the manufacturer and model number?
> Richard
>
>
>
|
|
|