Re: Clifton Club Country Club Net 18th July
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Hi,?
Yes the Hexbeam was a real surprise to me as when Tony G0HUZ connected his analyser, the reading across all bands from 20m to 10m were well below 2:1 especially across the ssb section. It was 6m that we noticed a rise in swr to around 2:1, but the FTDX10 handles that easily.
All in all it gives a really good account of itself at 30ft, and as I have a restricted footprint to work from, it out performs the MQ26 that I had previously.
Terry M0TNE
On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, 16:40 Steve Bunting M0BPQ, < steve@...> wrote: Hi everyone,
I had a hexbeam for a while - it is a 2 element beam on each band between 20 and 6m, but the size is reduce by folding each element into a "W" shape. This has the advantage of bringing the feed point impedance to 50R, but has limited 2:1 SWR bandwidth as a result of the smaller size.
Apologies for not making the net. I was up to my neck in weeds trying to install new low band receive antennas before it gets cold, which is when I usually do it....
73
Steve, M0BPQ?
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