I have a Gap Titan. Although I have had arcing and a carbon path form on one of
the counterpoise spacers, and it certainly has the weaknesses of any vertical
antenna, I have never had anything fall off. It has been through both Fran and
Floyd. I twice really expected to see it on the ground the next morning, but it
was still up there.
It's my fallback, runs on any frequency, basic antenna.
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73, Guy
k2av@contesting.com
Apex, NC, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Larsen <ve6yc@home.com>
To: Dick Flanagan <dick@libelle.com>; Ed Juge <ed_juge@zianet.com>; Tower-Talk
Reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] GAP Titan
Hi All:
I too had a Voyager. I used it at my home for about 2
years. I took it on a IOTA DXpedition to Cameron Island,
CH8MNP. When I go home I lent it out the the local DX club.
While it was out there some kind soul cut one set of guys
just to see it fall.
After I got it home I used it for another 2 years before selling
it.
In all this time NOTHING fell off. The only damage to it was from
the fall. Some minor bending of the tuning rods and one of the
jumper wires came free.
It is still in use at a friend's place and he is happy with it.
On every band that it works on it out ran the R-7 we took with us
to CH8MNP. In fact I worked VK9NS on the Gap on 40, but he
couldn't
be heard on the R-7.
> >I haven't owned a GAP, but a good friend, K2RM, had one for a couple of
> >years. Rarely two months went by when some physical part didn't fall off
> >into his back yard...literally!
> Just as one more data point, I've had a GAP Voyager up for about a year
> now and it has been out in sustained winds of 80 mph with gusts over
> 100 mph. Nothing has fallen off, all components are intact...
IMHO if you take your time and build these antennas right they
will last a long time.
--
Peter J. Larsen
VE6YC
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their
level, then beat you with experience.
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