While were talking about 40 meter antennas. . M2 antennas are ROBUST and the
three element a KILLER in more ways then one.
You better have a HD mast and mast mounting plate. And the Rotor ... HUMMM I
am sure it will survive for awhile on a CDR/Telex T2 but imo
it's living on burrowed time :(
and don't try to mount this on Water pipe a death certificate for sure ...
Wayne WEA
> From: SawyerEd@Earthlink.net
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 07:07:12 -0400
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Force 12 Delta 240 2 Elem 40M Yagi
>
> I owned and used the EF240X from Force 12 for about 7 years. The antenna
> actually worked very well once tuned but it had 2 issues. It was very
> sensitive to its environment on tuning so you could not set it to the
> factory and put it up. You had to raise it up to 40 ft or so and then bring
> it back down. The second issue was that the rigid aluminum wire of the
> loading/boom support structure was not robust and I had to repair it twice
> in the 7 years. The good news, and why I bought it, was that the bandwidth
> on the 240X was 250khz (and it was). Overall, I liked the antenna despite
> its quirks. Oh yes it was very light as well.
>
>
>
> I now use a M2 3el on a 32 ft boom. That is a killer antenna. Its got a
> 200 - 220 khz BW and more gain. More robust. But its heavy at over 150lbs.
> The cost of it is not much more than the 2 els from F12 and CC but it will
> blow the doors off either antenna. I have held a run frequency on CQ WW,
> ARRL DX, and WPX on 40 SSB using 100W and this antenna at 85 ft.
>
>
>
> 73
>
>
>
> Ed N1UR
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
|