> The 3 element is infinitely tunable and will give you near perfect > performance on all bands 40 and above.
> You will need a rotor. You don't need a huge investment however, they > work well with the commonly available Ham IV rotors. Lots of reliable > and attractively priced used ones on the market. These two statements are conflicting. If you're going to have a StepIR that will go down to 40 meters, you aren't going to want a Ham IV on it. That's way too light, for this country anyway. In fact, a T-Twister isn't enough for that. If you were going to limit it to 30 and above, I might go with a T-Twister, but I really feel my TH7DX tri-bander puts mine through more than it wants. It needs to be rebuilt now and then. StepIRs are heavy too, at least the ones I've seen. But you're right. It's really nice to have the tunable frequency range Did you follow his link? He's got tons of space and can put up wire for anything out to 160M dipoles, with a single support tower or pole. Further, he can go almost any direction with wires without having to weave in and out of tree branches, etc. I sure wouldn't mess with anything like a G5RV or OCF in that situation. The gold standard basic antenna on the lower bands is a simple half wave dipole. He's got room to do that down to 160M. Why go with less? On upper bands, a ground plane does wonders, but a simple 3 element yagi is excellent. Gary -- http://ag0n.net 3055: http://ag0n.net/irlp/3055 NodeOp Help Page: http://ag0n.net/irlp ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
