Paul, The KT34XA manual shows two boom configurations consisting of four pieces as follows: 8'6" 8'6" 8'6" 8' (3 pieces swaged) or 8' 8'6" 8' 8' (1 piece swaged and two 16" inserts The KT36XA (M2) ma
Dave, At time's I'd tend to think that Jim Smith's response might be appropriate, but as long as you have a speaking relationship with the individual, I think I'd take the honey approach while lettin
I've been using one for six or seven years. I'm very pleased with performance. It's survived some fairly good winds. Just went through a tropical storm that took many trees down in the area. It's bee
Peter, I rebuilt my KT34XA to a KT36XA shortly after M2 came out with the kits. When I first got it to the top of the tower at 75 feet, the SWR curves looked great. Then it rained and they looked ter
Good advice from K6LL and K0TO. If push comes to shove, I developed a process that enabled me to remove both driven elements on my KT34XA without taking the antenna off the tower. I used the overhead
I pondered the same question when I needed to replace the balun for my KT36XA. I started by putting a $20 dollar 4:1 in place of the KLM. It corrected the problem, but the VSWR curves looked differen
Tom, You didn't mention use of the tower for anything beyond a top band vertical. If that's all you're doing, seems like using 55 is really overkill. On the other hand if it's going to support other
I did the 34XA to 36XA upgrade about a year after M2 came out with it. I really believe that the new machined shorting bars make the upgrade worthwhile, but I have one caution. I have built one new 3
the caps at one point? Response: I suspect Tyler's talking about the problem with the cap tubes some years ago while it was still KLM. I seem to recall that problem was with the outer tubes rather t
I think Tom has the answer on feeding the EDZ - open wire/tuner. Before I got the tower up at this qth I used a pair of 40 meter EDZ's running in opposite directions for a six band antenna system.. T
Tom, My experience would suggest that your success in interlacing a 40 on the KT34XA boom is largely dependent on the design of the 40. I can tell you that if you tried to interlace linear loaded 40
Tom, Search the archives for info on using a PVRC mount. Today I helped get a second 4 element SteppIR in place on one of my pals towers using the PVRC mount/process. I think the only way we could ha
Yesterday I made the comment to K4GMH and NR4M that I rather liked working with the older shorty 40 designs such as the CC, Mosley and KLM because they are essentially turnkey. That is one puts them
I can't make comparisons between my KT36XA and other tribanders or monobanders, but if you're looking to purchase one, here are some thoughts based on the experience I've had with using a KT34XA for
N9WX said: I'm sorta debating between the KT-34XA and the 205CA monobander now, lol. K7SV says: If it's a used KT-34XA, I would strongly urge you to do the KT36XA upgrade. In my opinion the weakest l
I spent yesterday with the crew at W3BP's qth putting up 140 feet of AB105 with 4 element 40 meter and 6 element 20 meter OWAs on it. A few suggestions while the experience is fresh in my mind. As W5
For anyone rebuilding or doing an upgrade to one of the KLM tribanders I have one piece of advice. If the plastic caps that slide over the capacitor tubes do not have a really snug fig, there's somet
In addition to the comments already made by Dave K6LL, I have several comments. First, if your experience withte the KT34XA to KT36XA upgrade goes anything like mine did, you're not going to see high
I'm currently using a 2 el KLM 40 stacked about 8 feet over my KT36XA. The booms are 90 degrees from each other to avoid interaction. I've been extremely pleased with the performance of both antennas
I appreciate the input from the half dozen or so folks that responded to my original questions. The question about the phone band effectiveness of the XM240 that is cut for CW seems to have been answ