hopefully you will find a photo attached...you will see the left over damage from 120 MPH winds... antenna works.. I made 500 q's qhile home..with about 70 on...
I have a question regarding the center post(s) available. What (if any) interaction occurs with the aluminum or stainless steel center post configurations...
The other arrangement you may be thinking of combines the CP mechanical function and the band interconnection function into a single square-section coaxial...
Hi, I am new to the hexbeam. Have had a good read of the G3TXQ website, but is having some difficulty in getting my 15m broad band, monoband hexbeam into the...
Hi Hannes, The difference in tuning between a monoband version and a 5-band version is around 50kHz at 21MHz. If you have seen a shift of 1Mhz, there is a...
Traffie HexBeam model HX5Bi, just took down over the weekend from a job site, this antenna is practically like new. Complete and ready to be re-assemble....
Hi to the group I would like to mount an 11 element 2 meter beam below my 6 meter Traffie Hexbeam. My question is how far apart should the two antennas be to...
Hanford, I read somewhere that stacked antennas should be greater then one wavelength apart. I am guessing that in order to not affect the 6m hex element that...
I think that you can put them less than 3 ft apart in the same mast with very little interaction. Are they both horizontally polarized? If the 2m beam is vert...
Hi Phil and Steve, Thank you for the replies. I am using 25mm PVC tubing as spreaders. The wire gauge is 18AWG, PVC coated. I have non-insulated 2.5mm2 wire I...
Hannes, PVC insulation changes the Velocity Factor of the wire significantly and you need to make adjustments to the dimensions to compensate. Without knowing...
Hannes, 18AWG? Wow that seems a little thin to me. I am using 16AWG for my build of the 5 bander, but I am only putting 100 watts to it EVER so I think this...
Hi, I worked E4X on 20 and 30 CW. According to their website they used a spiderbeam and a hexbeam. Wonder if I heard the hexbeam on 20m. They were using amps...
Not sure but I heard that the spider beam fell down in the wind! 73's Ant MWØJZE HEXBEAM Nut! Elecraft K3 #485 MC0SHL DX & Contest Group www.mc0shl.com ...
It's not entirely clear but from the news posted on line, the Spiderbeam might have failed twice in the wind; at least once. They used two "hex-beams" and from...
John, Be aware that tuning the hexbeam is not quite as simple as tuning a dipole. If you adjust the length of the Driver only, you will shift the frequency of...
Hi Leo, Well one thing for sure is that it WAS a broadband version and the wind didn't blow it over ;-) Hexbeam the dx-peditioners choice of antenna in the...
John, I would be interested in how your lengths turn out as I am planning to use the same wire (16 ga THHN) to build my hexbeam. Godd luck with your build. ...
Ant, I just checked our sales records and we sold a six band hexagonal beam to the team leader, EA3RM in March. I thought the closest one in the photo looked...
Saw ad for "Hexx Mark II" hex beam in QST from DX Engineering. Have also heard of "Spiderbeam" and Traffie's "Hex Beam." Can someone tell me the basic...
Seems the Spiderbeam at 3CØC is now completely destroyed. The E4X group made a better choice as have many other dxpeditions who have use a Hex-Beam or...
Ditto here. Have not seen the winds that Ed saw. But sure had my fair share of 60 plus mph...but more than my share of ice. No issues here at all. 73 ...
Greetings to all on the hex-beam news users group. Well, I was going to build one from scratch, but went to Dayton and saw the DX Engineering Mark II version...
