Tennadyne T6

[SMILEX2692002]

Thinking about buying one.
I really like the fact of a single directional antenna with coverage from 13-30 mhz.
Kind of expensive but if it held up it would be my last HF antenna ever purchased.
My favorite bands are 20-10 and this antenna serves that purpose.
I have a Antron 99 on my tower with a 3 ele sirio beam and a cushcraft 10 ele 2 meter beam right now.
The 2 beams would need to be taken down but I think the Antron 99 would stay above the T6 for local use on 10 and 11 meters.

The T6 would be difficult to get on top of my 40 ft tower since the tower will not tilt over and is in a fixed upright position.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

The T-6 is not that expensive when you look at other antennas. My HyGain Explorer-14 is just a tribander and cost a lot more. Then again the gain is better too. As for being difficult to erect on a free standing tower.....no way. Easy easy.Make up a gin pole with a pulley on the top and clamp the bottom to a tower leg. You need a rope twice as long as the tower is high so look at 100 feet of 1/2 inch nylon rope. Not the yellow polypropylene rope that everybody calls nylon but the REAL nylon rope that is white and silky soft. Hoist it up and away you go. i have even done this myself both hoisting up and mounting in place. It is hard to do that when up the tower mind you but I have done it myself. If your tower has guy wires then it is a different story as the guys get in the way which is why I will NEVER have a guyed tower.Some slide the antenna up a set of guys while others erect a separate tram line to get it up there. You can also leave off most elements and build it at the top but that would be my last choice. Failing all of the above see someone that has a bucket truck.

BTW tilt over towers are not all they are cracked up to be. When tilted over you still have the elements in the way of the ground. A T-6 would have to have the top of the tower at least 9 feet off the ground if the boom was pointing straight up or 19 feet if the elements were.