No problem Eddie, I would love to cophase them but the cost of installing them might far outweigh the gain, when I have KL203p's that will give at least 10db gain possibly even 13 db gain, as opposed to 3Db at best from twin antennas.
I'd love to tear ooen one but I'm sure you understand my reluctance, as it would devalue them greatly and I honestly haven't decided what to do.
I am curious what Hy Gain Beams you have and how they perform, I've got a chance of a 533, the beams I've used before have been gamma matched, not beta matched, I've read the specs and they are aimed at max forward gain, but sometimes worth sacrificing some of that for rear and side rejection, which can make a greater difference than an extra Db or 2 forward, the rear rejection quoted looked to be on low side, I'd appreciate your inout or anyone else that's used one because another scenario I'm considering is a 533 under a CLR2, and a good quality coax switch, I'm sure my last beam had at least 10db more rear rejection and less forward gain and worked really well at shutting out crap from behind.
Glad I helped you on the M1 tube size, I scrutinised manual for you to see what I could see, just a pity it don't mention mounting bracket length, but I'm sure you could reverse engineer the length'ks now you know length of tube and the rest of other tubes to figure out what's short, that would be the size of the coil insulator, I think as I was saying to the DB that modelling without coil dimensions and masts/coax akes modelling a hit and miss afair as you guys are finding out, as its arguably the lossiest part of the dydtem its very difficult to achieve accurate results without it, also for me I hope there is enough extra tubing to make it a touch longer as I tune for 27 MHZ dead, to give me widest bandwidth across 26-28 mhz,
Seeing the coax spread to make the contact brought back memories of my earliest days on AM, back when I had a dv27 on a biscuit tin and most of my mums roasting aluminium foil over my bedroom floor, then added ground wires and finally a boot lid of a car at the end of my bed, worked surpisingly well befor I elevated to a dx27 helically would tuneable tip antenna, like a firestick and dv27 combined, I mind going to meet one of my mates local breakers who had a pretty shit signal to me considering I was less than 2 miles away and he was using a 3 element skysearcher beam, almost pissed myself laughing when I arrived to find the beam in his bedroom at a 45 degree angle pointing skyward and away from me, lmfao, those were the days, all sorts of crazy shit happened, I mind another day a friend had a sigma 4 and 20 foot steel scaffolding pole roped and chained to his tree, so he decided it was a security risk as would be easily stolen, quite common in Glasgow, He decided he wanted the whole fucking lot dropped down the hiuse drainpipe, but had no access to skylight or ladders, so me and Derek Bacon Runner took a brainstorm and decided to climb the fucking drainpipe, not the easiest job on a 20 ft high house, Derek went up first and went to aoex of roof, I was up in a flash and my mate who owned it passed sigma 4 and scaffy pole up to me and I gouided it to Derek, once we had it up on roof plan was I aim it down drainpipe and Derek would walk down roof whilst at same time walking up antenna, just as well both of us were small but strong, we got it right down in one piece in minutes, The most common question Dougie the owner got asked what mental bastards done that, lol, no-one ever stole it mind, lol, you'd need to be insane to try, also made his coax less vulnerable to jealous assholes cutting or pining it to short it, a very affective retard deterrent, lmao. Jazz 73
I'd love to tear ooen one but I'm sure you understand my reluctance, as it would devalue them greatly and I honestly haven't decided what to do.
I am curious what Hy Gain Beams you have and how they perform, I've got a chance of a 533, the beams I've used before have been gamma matched, not beta matched, I've read the specs and they are aimed at max forward gain, but sometimes worth sacrificing some of that for rear and side rejection, which can make a greater difference than an extra Db or 2 forward, the rear rejection quoted looked to be on low side, I'd appreciate your inout or anyone else that's used one because another scenario I'm considering is a 533 under a CLR2, and a good quality coax switch, I'm sure my last beam had at least 10db more rear rejection and less forward gain and worked really well at shutting out crap from behind.
Glad I helped you on the M1 tube size, I scrutinised manual for you to see what I could see, just a pity it don't mention mounting bracket length, but I'm sure you could reverse engineer the length'ks now you know length of tube and the rest of other tubes to figure out what's short, that would be the size of the coil insulator, I think as I was saying to the DB that modelling without coil dimensions and masts/coax akes modelling a hit and miss afair as you guys are finding out, as its arguably the lossiest part of the dydtem its very difficult to achieve accurate results without it, also for me I hope there is enough extra tubing to make it a touch longer as I tune for 27 MHZ dead, to give me widest bandwidth across 26-28 mhz,
Seeing the coax spread to make the contact brought back memories of my earliest days on AM, back when I had a dv27 on a biscuit tin and most of my mums roasting aluminium foil over my bedroom floor, then added ground wires and finally a boot lid of a car at the end of my bed, worked surpisingly well befor I elevated to a dx27 helically would tuneable tip antenna, like a firestick and dv27 combined, I mind going to meet one of my mates local breakers who had a pretty shit signal to me considering I was less than 2 miles away and he was using a 3 element skysearcher beam, almost pissed myself laughing when I arrived to find the beam in his bedroom at a 45 degree angle pointing skyward and away from me, lmfao, those were the days, all sorts of crazy shit happened, I mind another day a friend had a sigma 4 and 20 foot steel scaffolding pole roped and chained to his tree, so he decided it was a security risk as would be easily stolen, quite common in Glasgow, He decided he wanted the whole fucking lot dropped down the hiuse drainpipe, but had no access to skylight or ladders, so me and Derek Bacon Runner took a brainstorm and decided to climb the fucking drainpipe, not the easiest job on a 20 ft high house, Derek went up first and went to aoex of roof, I was up in a flash and my mate who owned it passed sigma 4 and scaffy pole up to me and I gouided it to Derek, once we had it up on roof plan was I aim it down drainpipe and Derek would walk down roof whilst at same time walking up antenna, just as well both of us were small but strong, we got it right down in one piece in minutes, The most common question Dougie the owner got asked what mental bastards done that, lol, no-one ever stole it mind, lol, you'd need to be insane to try, also made his coax less vulnerable to jealous assholes cutting or pining it to short it, a very affective retard deterrent, lmao. Jazz 73
