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Re: Dual Beam Pro


 

Dear Hiro-san,
I don't have this antenna, but bought another antenna by the same company called I-Pro Traveller.
It liked to use it as resonant self supporting antenna next to the sea with heavy winds.

This was at the time produced actually in Germany at what is very close to my home town so I could pick it up.
The reviews had been little but all positive.?
However, I had issue with the build quality (the capacitive head arms did not align) and it was not getting close to resonant on 40m.?

Contacted the owner (designer) of . He was very kind, admitted it's difficult to get resonant 40m and send the a support document as to how redrill holes to fix the alignment issue.

However, overall it seem to be problematic on 40m for a quick deploy that I was looking for, so I have agreed with Wimo-Company to return and exchange the Antenna for a Vibroplex Bug (Delux) morse key. I'm CW crazy?

The situation for the Dual Beam Pro might be complete different. It's not resonant by design and maybe produced in UK?

What you get with Dual Beam Pro seem to be a short, but rotatable dipole. Due to the capacitive hats (also in the Traveller design) this is likely a good dipole considering the space. Still it's short and use of transformer unit (1:4?) + auto tuner will have some impact on the performance. It's likely good, but can't do miracles like a "real" beam reflector/director.

Here is a recent video review:


I'm using a end fed wire as in the review, but not see such a noise floor.

Even I don't have space, I look? for a small "magic" beam .... I guess in terms of performance to size the hex beams as quite good (but sensitive for wind). For Solar Max this year. 10m there are good options, like moxon or nice double quad style from UK Innove Antennas that seems to have only 70-80cm boom length.

BEST 73 DE DJ1TF - Thomas
PS: Dual Beam Pro seems to be something for a homebrew project. Seems like one need fitting alu elements and drill view holes. Some experiments with matching transformer and the rest need to be done by the auto tuner.



Am Fr., 31. Mai 2024 um 07:04?Uhr schrieb HIRO, JJ1FXF <jj1fxf@...>:

Bill-san,

I searched the A1CLUB member roster, QRZ.com and my log of CLUBLOG, but JN1VVR wasn't found.

// HIRO, JJ1FXF





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