I agree 100% about the hex beam; I had the original Traffie 20m monobander and now have the K4KIO broadband 5-band hex beam. Both work extremely well on their designed bands. However -- it has been my experience that a 5-band hex beam works great as a very low-noise receiving antenna on 40m and 80m, especially when used as one of the antennas in a diversity receive configuration with the K3. Not surprisingly, the hex beam exhibits no directivity when used as a receiving antenna on 40 & 80m.
73, Dale - WA8SRA On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Tony Estep <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ...have you consider one of > > the many hex-beams that are available? ... I have a 5-band model... > > =========== > What Ian said! I put up a 5-band hex-beam on my chimney, 21 feet off the > ground. The results were terrific. My model came from DX Engineering, and > I'm sure there are other good ones. With that antenna and 500 watts, I > found that I could succeed in just about any pileup. Highly recommended. > > 73, > Tony KT0NY > ______________________________________________________________ > ______________________________________________________________ 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]
