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I personally think there is a whole lot of hogwash about some beam antennas and reality with real world operation. I found to see any real significant forward gain or signal strength gain between a 5/8ths wave vertical or comparable you have to go to 5 element beam or more I’ve played around with 2,3 & 4 element beam Antennas and a Maco V5000 and saw absolutely no difference in signal gain between the 2 3 or 4 element beam and the Maco V5000 all were at 52’ only advantage I saw was the ability to null out unwanted signals with the beam but as far as signal strength in the direction I pointed the beam VS the V5000 no difference between the 2,3and 4 element beam antennas vertically. I’m now running a Maco 5 element HV dual polarity antenna and see a 1.50 S Unit more deference in transmit and Receive with the station that’s is 70 miles away between it and the Maco V5000 with a 150 watt RCI 2970.

<blockquote data-quote="radioreddz" data-source="post: 750992" data-attributes="member: 1008"><p>I personally think there is a whole lot of hogwash about some beam antennas and reality with&nbsp; real world operation. I found to see any real significant forward gain or signal strength gain&nbsp; between a 5/8ths wave vertical or comparable you have to go to 5 element beam&nbsp; or more I’ve played around with 2,3 &amp; 4 element&nbsp; beam Antennas and a Maco V5000 and saw absolutely no difference in signal gain between the 2 3 or 4 element beam and the Maco V5000 all were at 52’ only advantage I saw was the ability to null out unwanted signals with the beam&nbsp; but as far as signal strength in the direction I pointed the beam VS the V5000 no difference between the 2,3and 4 element beam antennas vertically. I’m now running a Maco 5 element HV dual polarity antenna and see a 1.50 S Unit more deference in transmit and Receive with the station that’s is 70 miles away between it and the Maco V5000 with a 150 watt RCI 2970.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="radioreddz, post: 750992, member: 1008"] I personally think there is a whole lot of hogwash about some beam antennas and reality with real world operation. I found to see any real significant forward gain or signal strength gain between a 5/8ths wave vertical or comparable you have to go to 5 element beam or more I’ve played around with 2,3 & 4 element beam Antennas and a Maco V5000 and saw absolutely no difference in signal gain between the 2 3 or 4 element beam and the Maco V5000 all were at 52’ only advantage I saw was the ability to null out unwanted signals with the beam but as far as signal strength in the direction I pointed the beam VS the V5000 no difference between the 2,3and 4 element beam antennas vertically. I’m now running a Maco 5 element HV dual polarity antenna and see a 1.50 S Unit more deference in transmit and Receive with the station that’s is 70 miles away between it and the Maco V5000 with a 150 watt RCI 2970. [/QUOTE]

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