Hi Nate,
I don't know the details of the TH3Mk3, but I suspect you should be able
to do it. Get your grid dip meter and tools out, and give it a shot.
Seventeen meters should be pretty easy just by shortening the element
tips. You could make a 17 meter monobander as well by replacing the
traps with tubing.
73,
Rob, KL7Na
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:17 -0800, Nathaniel Lee wrote:
> Hi All on TT,
>
> I have a TH3Mk3 hygain tribander that is dangerously close to the scrap heap,
> and a thought
> occurred, has anyone ever converted one of these to the WARC bands? I suspect
> that 10 MHZ may be
> out of the question but the others certainly could use the cheap attention.
> If someone did this,
> how was it done?
>
> I hate to toss it considering that it gave me St Peter Island on 100w when
> the rotator
> conveniently died facing South in New England. Especially when there was a
> large hill IMMEDIATELY
> behind the house to the South.
>
> One other completely unrelated thought was pulled from the clouds of
> sleepiness, I found that the
> 40m dipole was noisy and useless, while the 75 full size ground plane hanging
> off a tree was the
> antenna of choice while working vp6dx on 40m in the wee hours, 10:20z. Thank
> the antenna gods for
> the Dentron tuner to remove the mysteries beyond the ft857.I figured the
> "3db" gain would have
> disappeared through the huge mismatch facing the system in general and be in
> the negative by
> comparison. Why was this?
>
> Thanks and 73 all,
>
> Nate
>
>
>
> 73,
>
> Nat
>
>
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