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[TowerTalk] Cushcraft R7000 and MFJ-1796, MFJ-1798 verticles

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Cushcraft R7000 and MFJ-1796, MFJ-1798 verticles
From: gareth@capecod.net (Gareth Crispell)
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 11:28:53 -0400
You might also want to check out the Force12 ZR-3 which is a high
performance vertical dipole.

de ... N1MSV    gary

Dick Flanagan wrote:
> 
> At 11:21 PM -0700 5/2/98, Dan Baldwin wrote:
> 
> >I am considering buying the Cushcraft R7000 and MFJ verticle antennas
> >(MFJ-1796 and 1798). I like the construction of the Cushcraft R7000
> >but I would also like the verticle ground mounted. I am really not sure
> >the R7000 can be ground mounted (about 3 feet off the ground). I
> >know the MFJ antennas can but have heard that their verticles are not well
> >constructed. I don't have room for ground radials so I am looking for
> >a verticle which I don't have to attach ground radials. Does anyone have
> >any info. on the subject if so I would sure appreciate it.
> 
> Check out the Gap antennas as http://www.gapantenna.com/.  They are treated
> as vertical dipoles and, as such, are billed as requiring no grounds.
> 
> 73, Dick
> 
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