Mike,
Mine is a little higher than Steve's but still not that high. It's on a mast
braced to the back of our two-story house and the bottom of the beam sits
about 3 feet above the gutter so maybe 20 feet or so above the ground.

73, Jim


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Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 8:37 PM
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Subject: Hex beam heights

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