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VK, good job! I personally would have thrown that yagi in the trash. No offense intended of course. After speaking with my buddy in FL yest' I'm pretty much convinced that there is a really big diff' with what works on paper and the real world. I would have personally put up a hexbeam or cubical quad. I will be changing the configuration of the yagi to a moxon this week. I will be able to run that at 13 feet with no advantage to going higher.

As far as folks saying that a positive tilt does nothing but send your signal into space, they really have no idea how the ionosphere works. He's actually running a 5* pos tilt on his hex. I have run as much as a 10 deg pos tilt on my moxon with great results.

I think the next base antenna will be a cubical quad or a hex. Far less noise with those designs. Paper is a great starting point but there's nothing wrong with experimenting and going outside the box.

Made some nice contacts yest' west coast and central/southern US effortlessly. Running very little power so the antenna is working well. Gotta get that reconfigured to a moxon and then the game is on! Have I said I love my moxon? Yea, prob'!

<blockquote data-quote="hobie102" data-source="post: 502521" data-attributes="member: 40450">VK, good job!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)"&nbsp; data-smilie="27"data-shortname="(y)" /> I personally would have thrown that yagi in the trash. No offense intended of course. After speaking with my buddy in FL yest&#039; I&#039;m pretty much convinced that there is a really big diff&#039; with what works on paper and the real world. I would have personally put up a hexbeam or cubical quad. I will be changing the configuration of the yagi to a moxon this week. I will be able to run that at 13 feet with no advantage to going higher.As far as folks saying that a positive tilt does nothing but send your signal into space, they really have no idea how the ionosphere works. He&#039;s actually running a 5* pos tilt on his hex. I have run as much as a 10 deg pos tilt on my moxon with great results.I think the next base antenna will be a cubical quad or a hex. Far less noise with those designs. Paper is a great starting point but there&#039;s nothing wrong with experimenting and going outside the box.Made some nice contacts yest&#039; west coast and central/southern US effortlessly. Running very little power so the antenna is working well. Gotta get that reconfigured to a moxon and then the game is on! Have I said I love my moxon? Yea, prob&#039;!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":love:" title="Love&nbsp; &nbsp; :love:"&nbsp; data-smilie="20"data-shortname=":love:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="hobie102, post: 502521, member: 40450"] VK, good job!(y) I personally would have thrown that yagi in the trash. No offense intended of course. After speaking with my buddy in FL yest' I'm pretty much convinced that there is a really big diff' with what works on paper and the real world. I would have personally put up a hexbeam or cubical quad. I will be changing the configuration of the yagi to a moxon this week. I will be able to run that at 13 feet with no advantage to going higher. As far as folks saying that a positive tilt does nothing but send your signal into space, they really have no idea how the ionosphere works. He's actually running a 5* pos tilt on his hex. I have run as much as a 10 deg pos tilt on my moxon with great results. I think the next base antenna will be a cubical quad or a hex. Far less noise with those designs. Paper is a great starting point but there's nothing wrong with experimenting and going outside the box. Made some nice contacts yest' west coast and central/southern US effortlessly. Running very little power so the antenna is working well. Gotta get that reconfigured to a moxon and then the game is on! Have I said I love my moxon? Yea, prob'!:love: [/QUOTE]

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