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Re: [TowerTalk] substandard aluminum

To: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>,"Towertalk Reflector" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] substandard aluminum
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:50:25 -0500
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
> > Telrex built antennas before the days of PCs. They did
it the old
> > fashioned way. They built them to last!
> > (snip)
> > wa3gin
>
> The old-fashioned way was to use rules of thumb and
excessive safety margins
> because the mechanics of the material were not
sufficiently well understood
> to support less rigid designs.

Other than a Force 12 80/40 antenna that is in close
competition, my telrex 40 meter yagi is the worse large
antenna I ever owned.

The balun was absolute junk. It had an unbelievable amount
of unbalance on the balanced terminals, and a considerable
amount of shunt inductive reactance. The thin elements would
break every time we had winds over 60 MPH, even after I
strutted them.

The element tuning was nowhere near optimum.

I rebuilt it with 6061T6 and now it rebounds from ice even
when the tips hang vertical. Winds don't phase it at all.

73 Tom


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