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replace it with to raise the freq? Tony -----Original Message----- From: jack emerson [mailto:w4tje@mindspring.com] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:44 PM To: Force12Talk@qth.com Subject: [Force 12 Talk] 40m yagis here's a suject i would appreciate some comments about. i am looking to improve my 40m capabilities. #1 on my list is the force 12 6el 20m/3el40m duobander. does anyone have any first-hand experience with this one? also, i see that force 12 now makes a 3el 40m monobander w/longer elements. just wondering out loud if they plan to make this new version for the 6el 20m/3el 40m? i use the force 12 7el 15m monobander, and can (proudly) say that it is by far the best antenna that i have ever bought or built. my comments about it really do not do it justice, but the dx that i hear with it is consistently 2 s-units or better than what i hear on my 5el monobander at a slightly lower height. the only problem that i had with it relates to the current thread about baluns. i elected to use force 12's balun to feed the antenna. a friend of mine in england had previously told me that when he installed the same balun on his identical (to mine) antenna, that it had lowered the resonant freq by 500kc's. well, sure enough, i had the exact same problem. with the balun, the resonant freq on my antenna was at approximately 20650 kc's. since the antenna was up 100+ feet on a guyed tower, needless to say , it was not easy to trim the driver elements to compensate. by the time i had cleared a path through the woods and hired a commercial crane with a bucket, the cost of my balun was greater than $350, hi. moral of the story, next time i'll listen to what my english friend tells me. 73 and gud dx de jack w4tje in north carolina -------------------------------------------- Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. Force 12 Web site: http://www.qth.com/force12 Submissions: send to Force12Talk@qth.com To unsubscribe: send a blank e-mail to Force12Talk-leave@qth.com Force12Talk Message Archive: http://www.qth.com/force12/list/force12talk For problems with the list, contact n4zr@qth.com -------------------------------------------- Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. Force 12 Web site: http://www.qth.com/force12 Submissions: send to Force12Talk@qth.com To unsubscribe: send a blank e-mail to Force12Talk-leave@qth.com Force12Talk Message Archive: http://www.qth.com/force12/list/force12talk For problems with the list, contact n4zr@qth.com |
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