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Whose hex beam are you using?
Chuck wa8vmo
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From: "Mike" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 8:00 PM
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Subject: Hex beams:
> I have had a hex beam for about 2 years, it has been about 20 feet from
> the ground on 2 sections of my tower mounted to the deck. The rest of
> the tower will go up sometime this year. Then I will have the hex beam
> up about 60 feet. As it is, I have made contacts in Alaska Japan,
> Barang, which the last is about 5,000 miles away. It always has tuned
> with the internal tuner in the Ts590, to a 1 to 1 swr. It is the 6 band
> model 20, to 6 meters. I have no complaints. I have another antenna up
> about 60 feet, a maltyband antenna from dx engineering and the hex beam
> hears as well if not better and that is only at 20 feet.
> I will write when the tower is up and let you know the differences.
> Mike
> KD2CDU
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