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G4EDY
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Rating: 4/5
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Feb 23, 2004 11:51
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Works Well
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I bought this in a hurry to replace my 30 year old 8 element J Beam that broke a week before my 30 year anniversary of first becoming an active ham on 2m!!
It went together well, instructions are well written, no shortages, took about an hour.
Observations as follows:
1.Boom is a little lightweight, the end sections only telescope about 3 inches into the centre section and there is a very obvious droop at each end of the boom.
2.Gamma match was spot on with factory dimensions, SWR 1.2:1 at 144.5MHz.
3.Performance seems to match with what you could expect from the boom length, a dB up on the J Beam.
4.E Plane beamwidth is wide at 40 degrees which helps when searching for stations but not so good if you have a noise problem from a particular direction.
5.Overall construction is 'lightweight', great as far as the XYL is concerned!
Overall a fine product but a little expensive in the UK ($180 ish), some more technical stuff in the manual would be useful such as tuning info for optimising for 144-146MHz that we have here in the UK.
Would I buy another, well actually I am considering stacking another one!!
Martin G4EDY
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KB7EA
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Rating: 5/5
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Dec 21, 2003 00:13
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Works great
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I have had this antenna up since the spring of 1995 at about 40 feet. I found it easy to construct, and the antenna works great. I have really shocked some hams that I heard on simplex by giving them a call from the other side of the Cascade mountains and over 100 miles away. It's not every day that a guy will ask me to QSL on 2 meters. I can literally work every thing I can hear, and I can hear stations that others in town have never heard.
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