Hello Zoran I agree with Deni. I completed the driven elements of the 5 band Spiderbeam for the IOTA contest. Mounted 1m above ground with no reflectors or...
Hi Deni I am using a Yaesu G-450A at the bottom of the 10M mast with a HD 5 bander. It has been up since May with no problems. 73's Jay KB1NYT [Non-text...
Hi Igor, have you any plane for add the two 40mt elements on classic spierbeam? Thank's Alex iz7fmm. ua9cdc <ua9cdc@...> ha scritto: I have just added...
Beautiful pictures, Igor :) I hope you enjoy the summer and can very well imagine your comment about the number of spiders in the shack dramatically increasing...
Hi Deni, great pictures ... looks very well, just like a picture manual "how to install" :) I hope the pictures will stay there for a while, please let me...
Hi Zoran, I can only second what F5VJC and MM0BQI wrote - do not waste your time with intermediate measurements while the antenna is not completed and/or near...
Thanks all for the replies re the rotators in use, and thanks Con for the pictures. You have some interesting pieces of metal attached to your mast base and...
... just came back to Hamburg after being away for a few days and nice to see a lot messages in the Spiderbeam yahoo group... Hi Jim, sounds like you had a...
Hi Con and all who asked about my 4 band 40-20-15-10 spider beam. The dimensions of the elements is about the same as Con described in message 106. There are...
A mast is just a mast... this is what I used to think watching aluminum telescopic mast at spiderbeam shop. I thought: price seems high... but my idea to...
Hello to you all Spiderbeamfans, In a short time I like to buy a HD-Spiderbeam. I must make a decision to put a aluminium pipe of about 40 or 50mm against the...
Hello Jan, I used my Spiderbeams with push-up masts between 5 and 7 meters above the roof with Excellent results. Have a look on the pictures in the...
Hi Con! I am suprised with your spiderbeam, today we pushed all bands and another try on the hill near Banja Luka, results are very impressive! Only on 12m I...
Good morning Jan, your question is depending a little bit on what type of roof you have - if there is lots of metal involved (maybe aluminium foil on the...
Hi Zoran, I am glad to hear you made progress and SWR is nearly where it should be. At only 4m above ground it is still difficult to say what will happen later...
Hi Deni, yes - both the turning handle and also the aluminium bars for attaching the rotator to the tripod would be available .. Sorry I have not put them in...
Big advantage of Siperbeam is his lightweight... so you can be able to put the antenna 10-12 mt up on the roof using a simple telescopic vertical pole without...
Last week my homebrew heavy duty Spiderbeam eventually was put up (by myself, no helpers) at 12 meters above ground with a simple TV rotator at the bottom of a...
Hello to you all, Thanks all to you for your answer and I will put 2 pipes in each other so the inner pipe will turn free in the outside pipe and put it with...
Jan! Mounting that antenna close to your bedroom window, I doubt that you will be able to sleep due to the noise even with a low amount of wind. No other place...
Well Osten I dont sleep in that sleepingroom lol...its used as atelier for my wifes painting and so on.....thanks for your worrie Osten lol best73's and mni dx...
Hello to you all, I've made a photomap with 4 pictures in it,; so you can see my situation. The top of my roof is about 9 meters high, and I think 3 or 4...
Hi Jan, I definitely think the antenna will perform well in the place you showing in the first picture (3-4m above the roof). I can see a wire somewhere there...
Hi Con, Thanks for your answer. All the wires and dipoles are down at the moment, and after 20 years my windom-antenna must be dismantled, because the...
Hello Jan, OK I understand, yes the decision has to be carefully made, and I think SM5DQC made a valid point about the noise. In that respect, placing the...
HI Con and others in the group! Im about to purchase a WARC version (30-17-12) because 30m band thrill me a lot. I have got 14m tall crank tower. Has anybody...
Hi all spiderbeam fans, Got my spiderbeam up and it works quite well. (see the pics) The snaplock got somewhere missing in the process, had to fix the balun...