You should buy the K7LXC tri bander report for 20 bux. Its worth every
penny. Since you want to go with a small antenna, the
tribander report recommend the C3SS as the best performing short boom
tribander. No lossy traps to eat up your power.
press on regardless
73
Chet N4FX
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Geiger" <aa5jg@yahoo.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:07 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Antenna opinions/advice
>
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> I am turning to the fine antenna list here for some opinions on which
> antenna would be better for overall DX and contesting work. First, some
> background: Last May my Mini Products MQ-1 miniquad was killed in a
> storm. I had been using it for 6 years and worked about 250 countries on
> it, so I liked it. Also made 850 QSOs in a 10 meter contest with it. It
> also was a good 6 meter antenna. I have just been running a G5RV since
> that time,and it does OK but is noisier than the mini quad was, plus the
> performance isn't quite as good. One interesting thing about the G5RV was
> that it had a sharp null on 20m in the direction of KP5. I couldn't hear
> K5D on 20 at all, even when everone else in my area was spotting them. I
> worked them with no problem on 17m, though.
>
> I have narrowed down my search for a replacement antenna to either a
> Mosley TA32JR 2 element tribander on a 6 foot boom or a TGM MQ-1 Mini Quad
> 2 element hibred quagi on a 4 1/2 foot boom. I don't use an amp and have
> no plans to, so the power rating of the TA32 isn't a factor. The Mosley
> would require an additional coax run, since I had to put up a 3 element 6m
> yagi to replace that portion of the miniquad. So, the 2 options would
> come down to:
>
> 1. Mosley TA32JR at about 25 feet. Would require and extra coax run, but
> I would have a separate 6m antenna to use.
>
> 2. TGM MQ-1 Miniquad at about 30 feet. I can get it up a little higher
> due to its smaller size. It wouldn't require an additional coax run, but
> also would make it more difficult to listen to 6m on a separate radio.
>
> So, in your opinion, which would be the better performing HF setup? The
> Mosley TA32 2 element tribander, or the TGM MQ-1 2 element miniquad?
>
> 73s John AA5JG
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