Great Antenna - Better Than Expected Time owned: 0 to 3 months
Recently installed a 4 band antenna as a not-so-flat flatop at around 10m high each end and about 11m high in the middle. Feeding with 20m of RG58U.
It works as advertised - well better in my opinion. According to my rigs SWR meter (and closely followed by an MFJ analyser) the VSWR I get are as follows:
40M: 7.045 = 1:1, 7.2 = 1.4:1
20M: 14.15 = 1:1, 14.345 = 1:1
15M: 21.15 = 1.4, 21.45 = 1:1
10M: 28.31 = 1.3:1, 29.1 = 1:1
Curiously 17M and 12M are 1.9:1 anywhere. 80m is >3.0:1 as expected, but tunes up easily enough and works ok.
So far have worked a handful of DX and get good reports. It is a fairly quiet antenna. Mounting was straight forward and the strain relief is a good idea. One thing to note is that it is very light weight (but robust), so much so that it does not cause my 9M fiberglass telescopic mast to bend under the weight. Nice.
Dealing with Rob (pa3eke) was a pleasure and he kept me very informed along the way. My antenna appeared to be made to order which was nice. Shipping from EU to AU took a few weeks, but worth the wait.
You won't be disappointed with this antenna and I am considering getting another to place at 90 degrees to my current one for some added directivity.
