Believe me, $500 to $700 for a yagi is way cheap.  Decent monoband yagis
these days cost well over $4,000, and many are as much as $10,000.  The
SteppIr DB36 and DB42 are cheap when you consider that they cover 80 thru 6
meters in a single yagi.  Stan just bought 3 80 meter yagis for his Florida
station that begins construction in July.  Each of them cost him $10,000.
Each of his 4 20 meter yagis cost him $4700, and they gave him a
multi-antenna discount.
Cheap is of course relative, but anything under a grand in the grand scheme
of things is dirt cheap.

Alan - N7MIT


Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Jim Shaffer
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:53 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?

I'd like one of those Steppir DB36 beams.  They only cost around $5,000.  Of

course then I'd want a 40 meter tower to put it on.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Duke, K5XU
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Hex Beams, cheap?

The ones I have seen range in price from right around $500 to above $700.

In other words, they are priced right up there with the other
triditional 2 and 3 element tri band yagis.

There hasn't been a cheap Yagi since the Gonthom. Anyone who admits to
remembering those knows the real meaning of "cheap junk."

-- 
Mike Duke, K5XU 


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