Force 12 has announced a new antenna the XR-5. It is a 5 band (20-10)
antenna with the "forward stagger", multi-monobander design developed by
Force 12. The specs look pretty good. It has a relative small footprint,
being on an 18' boom and a turning radius of just over 20'. At this point
there doesn't seem to be a way to add 40m to it.
The ability of the C series antennas to work on 17/12 is at best a
compromise, but they actually perform better than you might expect. A good
friend of mine has the C4, and in three years has managed 307 countries with
a fair amount on the WARC bands.
Don B.
W6DRB
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