I actually had a Gotham 10/15/20 meter quad up for quite a while. It
worked very good for me. I had it on a 30 telescoping mast and a bad
windstorm took it down after about 4 years.
I know everyone says Gotham antennas were junk - may have been, but I
had a ball with it and think it cost me about $50. Lotta bang for the
buck! 73
Tom W7WHY
On 6/20/2014 2:22 PM, n0tt1@juno.com wrote:
I once had a 4el 20-15-10 homebrew Quad, built from
a QST article back in the early 70's/late 60's. It was a
real performer. (Yeah, yeah subjective, etc etc.) The
only problems were that I didn't use large enough
AL tubing for the spreaders (1" irrigation) and not
large enough solid copper wire (#14). All on a 3" AL
boom. The spreaders were broken up with Delrin
insulators.
Yes! I had a tilt-over tower and a 10ft step ladder for
maintenance. Still have those.
I took it down in 1983 after a severe ice storm and replaced
it with a TH7DXX which is still up. No issues except that the
20m section resonates up in the phone band with 1:1 SWR
and I don't use phone if I can avoid it.
If I decide to build another quad, I would use something like 1.5" tubes
to start off with and #12 copper-weld wire and use solid HDPE
for the insulators, drilling tiny holes in the AL tubes where needed
to allow condensate to drain.
73,
Charlie, N0TT
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