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Who here dreams of owning this antenna
- Thread starter DualAntennas
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@ w9cll...
It's becoming quite evident that you have disdain for CB operators. I guess we can just imply that from now on. It'll help with any confusion.
It's becoming quite evident that you have disdain for CB operators. I guess we can just imply that from now on. It'll help with any confusion.
$850 for 440 KHz works out to $1.93/KHz. I bought an A3WS for $500 and it covers just 200 KHz of legal spectrum. That works out to $2.50/KHz.
Man it must have been a super small lot. The Super Laser 500 had a boom length of 40 feet and a turning radius of about 22 feet. Unless his lot was super narrow and the neighbors houses were only 44 feet apart with his in the middle it just couldn't happen to both properties.
End of chain yanking.
Yank away$850 for 440 KHz works out to $1.93/KHz. I bought an A3WS for $500 and it covers just 200 KHz of legal spectrum. That works out to $2.50/KHz.
Man it must have been a super small lot. The Super Laser 500 had a boom length of 40 feet and a turning radius of about 22 feet. Unless his lot was super narrow and the neighbors houses were only 44 feet apart with his in the middle it just couldn't happen to both properties.
End of chain yanking.
It was a very small lot here in the city where the homes are only four to five feel apart. Where my home is the antenna wouldn't have come near the other homes.Man it must have been a super small lot. The Super Laser 500 had a boom length of 40 feet and a turning radius of about 22 feet. Unless his lot was super narrow and the neighbors houses were only 44 feet apart with his in the middle it just couldn't happen to both properties.
End of chain yanking.
There's an older couple that lived in a town about 40 miles from me that had STACKED Super Laser 500's on an 80 foot Rohn tower. It was a sight to behold. Wish I'd taken a pic of it, as they have both since passed, and the nasty ice storm we had in early 2007 took down the antennas and tower. They ran a Pierce Simpson Simba modified to go to 40 channels, with a D&A 12 tube Phantom. It was a sick setup!
Could you imagine stacked Super Laser 500's on an 80 foot tower, and the kind of rotor that had to be used to TURN the damn thing? Makes my head bleed just thinking about it... :blink:
~Cheers~
Could you imagine stacked Super Laser 500's on an 80 foot tower, and the kind of rotor that had to be used to TURN the damn thing? Makes my head bleed just thinking about it... :blink:
~Cheers~
Yeah. I bought some tubing off of DX Engineering to start on my X-Dipole idea before I bought the plans for a CIrcular Polarization beam antenna. . DX charges only $10 shipping.
I've seen some pretty cool and crazy setups. A guy in Decatur, TX had a setoff stacked Moonraker IV's. Until the wind got them. I also knew of a set of stacked V Quads, but the owner passed away. He lived in Canada, so you know it had to be tough to survive the weather. It was quite a setup, with the "rotor" which was a motor with a chain drive in the base of the truss. 
I was very happy with my 4 element yagi, and it didn't require my neighbors ducking when I turned it, and didn't cost me an arm and a leg for a rotor and tower to support it. Still (in my mind) the best bang for the buck antenna out there.
73,
RT307
I was very happy with my 4 element yagi, and it didn't require my neighbors ducking when I turned it, and didn't cost me an arm and a leg for a rotor and tower to support it. Still (in my mind) the best bang for the buck antenna out there.
73,
RT307
Most of the advantage of a quad is realized in the first two elements. Notice you only see 6 element quads for 11 meters? Manufacturers with more experience will always opt for a quagi design when going beyond 2 elements. Essentially a quad antenna with yagi directors.