SteppIR comments?

[W5GA]

Interesting comments.
Putting up and down not that big a problem IF (if!) there are those kinds of problems. That's what the crane is for!
But, I also want to work the HF WARC bands. Hard to do with the usual yagi.
Anyhow, that plan is on the back burner for a few months,
I went and bought a K-3 a couple of days back, so the ham radio account has to be built back up to an acceptable level.......

Vinnie, if you want WARC bands too, look at one of these:

http://www.texasantennas.com/index.p...d=73&Itemid=38

[Vinnie]

I dunno,
3 feedlines and 15 elements on a 32 foot boom says says narrow bandwidth and critical tuning a problem to me.

[N8YX]

Log periodic.

Trade a bit of gain for a single feedline, ease of tuning and low SWR across its coverage range.

[n5moa]

Log periodic.

Trade a bit of gain for a single feedline, ease of tuning and low SWR across its coverage range.

What he said. Tennadyne T8.

[Vinnie]

Geez, we got a pair of those over at the Or. National Guard, one beamed on KL7 and one toward W3, up high too, and I think they are crappy performers. F/B is not good. Front to side not the best either, and the SWR goes all over the place. But, not used in the ham bands, now are they! Gain, of course, is very hard to judge without going to a fair amount of trouble.

[N8YX]

Geez, we got a pair of those over at the Or. National Guard, one beamed on KL7 and one toward W3, up high too, and I think they are crappy performers. F/B is not good. Front to side not the best either, and the SWR goes all over the place. But, not used in the ham bands, now are they! Gain, of course, is very hard to judge without going to a fair amount of trouble.

Which make and model?

All are not created equal...

[Vinnie]

Not a clue. Not mine, they belong to the Or Army Guard. Supposed to be used to talk to Fort Richardson and Fort Wainwright in Alaska and 'the national command authority' in dc. However, the NG has no radios worthy of the name, so they are not used! I trying to get the one to establish an Army MARS link to Alaska.

[Vinnie]

As an aside. It's a hellufanote for a Navy vet to have to join Army MARS, but NAVY MARS has it's head in the sand so far as communications is concerned.

[W5IEI]

Vinnie,
Can't help with the Stepp-Ir,but I love my Mosley Ta 34 XL @ 65 feet.
Rotatable dipole on 12/17,4 elements on 10,15,20.
Anything I can hear,I can work,so far.
Mike

[Vinnie]

Well, having an antenna for only one band sure limits ur multi-band DXCC standing!
On top of which, DX'ing on 20 is more or less shooting fish in a barrel.....a friend of mine says that 'working DX on 20 only proves ur radio was turned on.'.....well, maybe not quite that bad, but 20 sure is the easiest band to find the most DX on.....