Hi, I would like to get some more of the wire used on the Lightning Bolt quad. I appreciate that I can use other wire with appropriate length changes but the...
Lightning Bolt used MIG welder wire, available at most welding supply stores, as well as many building supplies, and so on. Take the spool and get them to...
Hey Pete he is in Thailand. This is not so easy to find the wire there as i can not find it in Greece. It would be very nice if there is a supplier with a web...
Kostas, they surely weld stuff in Hellas! And in Thailand as well. And if they weld stuff you must have a welding supply of some sort. The place where the...
Thanks to everybody for the replies, very useful and helped a lot. I think I can find it here, Bangkok is probably the welding world capital. Everything seems...
Square Folks, Greetings! This past weekend, I netted a free 55' tower and a bunch of Quad parts from a local Quad geek, WB4SQ, and currently thinking about and...
Well, with a 10 to 12 foot boom you have the makin's of a nice 2L quad, reflector and DE, unless you have some spiders with the 22.5 degree included angle a la...
Greetings! Has anybody used material other than fiberglass for their spreader arms on their quads? I have seen the pics of ice encrusted drooping quads that...
Perhaps I'm revealing my age, but the "classic" spreader material was bamboo fishing poles. The "cane poles" were cheap, lasted about as long as the plywood...
I have often used bamboo for spreaders, and it holds up well if treated beforehand. A quick scratch with sandpaper and then spar varnish, and then I used...
Does anyone have any plans or the dimensions for building a spider for a "boomless" quad? I had a cubex quad up from 1978 to 1990. In 1990 a storm destroyed my...
Well, I'm in the wrong place to look but I think either the Handbook or the Antenna Book had detailed plans in at least one issue. However, the exact details...
... spider for a "boomless" quad? When I built mine last year (yes its been up over a full year in NEw England and has been perfect!) I used a Gem Quad spider....
Hello ALl, In a recent QSO with S52OW Tilen in Slovenia , he mentioned that a Company called Trival, manufactures quads and many other antennas! Take a look : ...
Hi guys I m new to Quad antennas and Im the only amateur radio operator in my town that wants to use quad so there is no local technical support for me. I...
Hi Kagan: Well, I have seen quads built with regular single conductor insulated copper, electric fence wire, and except for barbed wire almost any other type...
Personally, I use the Wireman's #12 Silky because its flexibility makes a neat package and it's tough. But you could use wire from Lowes or Home Depot. The...
I just learned on another site that the wire from Lowes, etc. is soft drawn copper which stretches under tension. Although I doubt it would be a problem with...
I almost always use house wire. The since strand stuff, for wiring up houses #12. Never really had any problem with it stretching since you use fairly short...
Actually, soft drawn copper wire will stretch, and stretch badly, for runs over 60 feet or so. Particularly in a dipole configuration where there's the weight...
I used the same stuff too. Normally used for house wiring, over here it`s called 2.5mm flat twin & earth. Simply strip it out and remove the insulation,...
OK, Pete, but regarding insulation, I modeled a 30/40M quad using Teflon insulated wire and the actual antennas' resonances were right on the money....
Well, Joe, Teflon is a known quantity. The plastic mix on house wiring is not. From what a friend who works at a wire mill tells me, a percentage of their...
OK, Pete. Good point. I have modeled that single strand insulated wire from Lowes with a 0.015" PVC jacket, if I remember correctly. However, I only used it...
I used it many years ago, but I didn't like it. It makes for nice neat looking installation because it's like dealing with a flexible piece of fiber cord....
Hi to all the group I recently bought a second hand 2 element delta loop (Lightning Bolt) but when it arrived home and I did all the inventory I realised that...
Has anyone tried to make a quad that is rotatable between horizontal and vertical polorization? What I was thinking of is a rotor on the boom of the driven...
