Exactly.
Milled aluminum that are bolted to the element plates. The elements are
installed using polyamide clamps on the bottom of the element plates. Look up
polyamide. Kevlar is a polyamide.
The boom to mast plates use specialized stainless steel clamps that have a
flattened section which increase surface area contact between the clamps and
the mast. I can't imagine a JK beam spinning on the mast.
If JK are building the 5BA (updated) again they need to get it up on the
website. It'll sell like hotcakes.
R. Kevin Stover AC0H
ARRL, FISTS, SKCC, NAQCC.
“If it doesn’t work the first time you push the button it won’t work the
20th…Just stop.”
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Jeff Blaine
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:18 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 5 Band Yagi with more than 2 elements per band
My experience with quite a number of the JKs is that they use machined aluminum
clamp sets for the boom. I personally don't like working with antennas on the
ground so I build them on a trio of saw horses. The element sag is less than
the saw horse height on all my JKs so that allows me to do the alignment very
easily.
The only muffler clamps I've seen on the JK are for the boom to mast on smaller
antennas (15 & 10) - there he has 4x of the clamps and the clamps have a
flattened and knurled surface which bites into the mast. The "problem" with
these clamps is when you are setting the beam direction once it's mounted on
the mast. They will absolutely not slip at all so you have to really loosen
them up to get the beam to turn by hand. Of course that is what you want after
you do get the beam direction set.
73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
www.ac0c.com
On 25-Jul-18 1:59 PM, rlvz--- via TowerTalk wrote:
> But don't the JK antennas use muffler type clamps for attaching the elements
> to the boom where the elements must be lined up by sight? I hate fooling
> around aligning elements by sight only to have them change when you tighten
> the clamp. Pre-drilled element brackets are much nicer and my idea of a well
> designed antenna.
>
> 73,
> Dick- K9OM
>
>
> ## I spoke with Ken, W3JK a while back on the telephone, and yes,
> indeed, he does make a new and improved version of the oem F12 5BA. It
> has more gain, better FB, better FR, better swr than the oem F12 5BA,
> and is stronger built....and uses TWO LESS eles than the oem 5BA. The JK
> improved version is well though out.
>
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