The TH-11 is also a very good antenna that has served my needs very well for 17
years now. Looking at specs on a number of current popular antennas, I have
found no good excuse to replace the TH-11 with anything else. In the Steppir
lineup, only the 4 el shows some benefits over the TH-11, and they are not
substantial. - John Owens - N7TK
> On 10/24/2021 8:30 AM k7lxc--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Even the original TH6 with the single driven element had the beta match.
> >I think the TH3 did also. That must have been a bunch of trial and error
> >since the TH6 has been around since the 1960s and I think NEC wasn?t around
> >until the early 1980s.
>
>
>
> > At the time, Hy-Gain's biggest tribander was known as the TH6DXX,
> >designed by Howell "Howie" Pabian, W0QAN.
>
>
>
> I worked at Hy-Gain pre-MFJ and had a chance to meet Howie. He
> did a terrific job designing one of the most significant antennas of the era.
> Fortunately he had the Hy-Gain antenna range to help him but it still took 4
> hours per iteration to change settings and take measurements for each
> modification. I don't know how many times the antenna was raised and lowered
> but it must've been dozens? Hundreds? So tnx to Dr. Jim Breakall, WA3FET,
> who was one of the developers of the NEC program and others who made our
> antenna
>
> designing much easier and faster!
>
>
>
> And tnx to Grant for finding that interesting Hy-Gain history article.
> Any other historical stories out there that may be of interest?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Steve K7LXC
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