10 meter antenna's

[N8YX]

I think I'm going to take John's advice and get a CB or 10 meter 3 element beam.I'm going to wait until after our ham fest here in Fort Payne before I buy one.It's on the 9th if anyone here is close enough to make it.

You used to be able to get CB yagis of all makes and models by the truckload - free for the taking - immediately after the "CB boom" ended and people moved on to the next fad. That's how my RadShack directional 10M antenna came to be...someone simply didn't want the thing around for whatever reason and I got the works for hauling it away.

One of the best deals which I can kick myself over NOT taking at the time was for a KLM log-periodic that covered 6-30MHz. Its boom was made of Rohn 25 tower. Mind you, this was a $10,000 antenna in the late 80s and was just a few years old - it was on the ground, in pieces and ready to be stashed 'against the day'.

Asking price? $275...

[KB3LAZ]

You used to be able to get CB yagis of all makes and models by the truckload - free for the taking - immediately after the "CB boom" ended and people moved on to the next fad. That's how my RadShack directional 10M antenna came to be...someone simply didn't want the thing around for whatever reason and I got the works for hauling it away.

One of the best deals which I can kick myself over NOT taking at the time was for a KLM log-periodic that covered 6-30MHz. Its boom was made of Rohn 25 tower. Mind you, this was a $10,000 antenna in the late 80s and was just a few years old - it was on the ground, in pieces and ready to be stashed 'against the day'.

Asking price? $275...

In my area (back home) CB antennas are still free for the taking. Verts and beams. In fact I have a lot of tower that I got that way too. TV antenna tower but if you are only going to put up a small amount I find it usable. This is how I have my 20m, 10m, 2m, and 6m beams in the air. Garage mounted TV antenna towers (they may have a name for them...IDK what it is..the cheap square tube ones that come in 10 foot sections.). Anyway, one on each side of the garage.

Each is at 50 foot or so with some kind of hard, light, flexible aluminum post running from the bottom of the tower to about 15 feet above it. 20m and 10m beams on one and 2m and 6m beams on the other. Each also have an inverted V coming off of them as well as a vert at the top. Works well for me and the only money in vested was that of concrete for base. House brackets and hinge plates cost me nothing to make as my uncle runs a scrap yard.

Point is, I live in an area surrounded with houses owned by former CBers and either they dont want the stuff anymore or the new owners want it gone. This made getting started with antennas and towers a rather cheap venture for me.