I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based
on size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two
popular models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and
comparisons between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John

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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based on
size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two popular
models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and comparisons
between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


John I would try to put up an HF beam that also covers 17M and 12M as well
as 10, 15, and 20M These are great bands.

Lamont

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"John Siegel" wrote in message
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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based
on size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two
popular models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and
comparisons between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


John I would try to put up an HF beam that also covers 17M and 12M as well
as 10, 15, and 20M These are great bands.

Lamont
Is the Cushcraft MA5B too big? Covers 12 and 17M as 10, 15, and 20M

URL:
http://www.cushcraft.com/Wireless_Pr...?group_id=1717

Lamont

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"John Siegel" wrote in message
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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based
on size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two
popular models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and
comparisons between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


John I would try to put up an HF beam that also covers 17M and 12M as well
as 10, 15, and 20M These are great bands.

Lamont

Is the Cushcraft MA5B too big? Covers 12 and 17M as 10, 15, and 20M

URL:
http://www.cushcraft.com/Wireless_Pr...?group_id=1717

Lamont


While including 12 and 17 is not a bad idea, the antenna models I have
seen that add these bands are generally
heavier with greater wind area than I want to handle. The MA5B, while
not too big, reduces the 10, 15 and 20 performance significantly and
only gets you a rotatable dipole for 12 and 17. I would rather stay
with the tribander and the vertical I have for 12 and 17.

Moseley has some antennas out there that have the same performance
across all 5 bands but now we are talking quite a bit heavier.
John

Force 12 C-3SS is a good choice also. For 3 bands, 10/15m is 2 elements
full size, 20 m is 2 shorted elements and a rotary dipole on 12/17.



Only 26 pounds, 12 ' boom and 24 ' longuest element. Small but very
performant antenna.



A bit more expensive. No heavy traps but a lot of aluminium tubing.



DMB




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"John Siegel" wrote in message
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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based
on size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two
popular models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and
comparisons between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


John I would try to put up an HF beam that also covers 17M and 12M as
well
as 10, 15, and 20M These are great bands.

Lamont
Is the Cushcraft MA5B too big? Covers 12 and 17M as 10, 15, and 20M

URL:
http://www.cushcraft.com/Wireless_Pr...?group_id=1717

Lamont

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Force 12 C-3SS is a good choice also. For 3 bands, 10/15m is 2
elements full size, 20 m is 2 shorted elements and a rotary dipole
on 12/17.



Only 26 pounds, 12 ' boom and 24 ' longuest element. Small but very
performant antenna.



A bit more expensive. No heavy traps but a lot of aluminium tubing.



DMB




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"John Siegel" wrote in message
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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander.
Based on size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I
found two popular models that are good candidates. Looking for
comments and comparisons between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the
Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


John I would try to put up an HF beam that also covers 17M and 12M
as
well
as 10, 15, and 20M These are great bands.

Lamont
Is the Cushcraft MA5B too big? Covers 12 and 17M as 10, 15, and 20M

URL:
http://www.cushcraft.com/Wireless_Pr...?group_id=1717

Lamont






Hi:
I have the Tennadyne 6 el Log periodic antenna. Covers 13 to 30Mhz with
an SWR of under 2:1. It has a 12' boom and the longest element is 38'. No
traps or any other trickery and weighs 37lb. I've had it up since 2002
and have worked DXCC on all bands and have about 1500 band countries.
Which means nothing in reality as it's more of a mark of my persistence
than antenna performance. The fact is the antenna performs just as the
specs say and it stays up even with 1/2" of ice. I would look carefully
at this antenna if you are looking for an all band high performance
antenna.

John Passaneau, W3JXP

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I have the Tennadyne 6 el Log periodic antenna. Covers 13 to 30Mhz with
an SWR of under 2:1. It has a 12' boom and the longest element is 38'. No
traps or any other trickery and weighs 37lb. I've had it up since 2002
and have worked DXCC on all bands and have about 1500 band countries.
Which means nothing in reality as it's more of a mark of my persistence
than antenna performance. The fact is the antenna performs just as the
specs say and it stays up even with 1/2" of ice. I would look carefully
at this antenna if you are looking for an all band high performance
antenna.

John Passaneau, W3JXP

Can you get it to work on 40m or lower with a tuner? I ask because I just
have a kluge antenna that I am feeding through a tuner [TRANSCEIVER VSWR
METER PI-NETWORK TUNER COAX BALUN OCF DIPOLE, 8 FT X 20 FT] and it's
working better than I expected, even on 40.

Just wondering. TKS.

"Sal"
(KD6VKW)

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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based
on size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two
popular models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and
comparisons between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


John I would try to put up an HF beam that also covers 17M and 12M as well
as 10, 15, and 20M These are great bands.

Lamont
I remeber my friend replacing his tri-bander about 5 years ago with a
multi-band quad(2 elemnts on each band). The quad while being a pain in the
butt to get on the tower was a much superior performing antenna per he.


Jimmie

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"John Siegel" wrote in message
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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based
on size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two
popular models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and
comparisons between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


John I would try to put up an HF beam that also covers 17M and 12M as well
as 10, 15, and 20M These are great bands.

Lamont
I remeber my friend replacing his tri-bander about 5 years ago with a
multi-band quad(2 elemnts on each band). The quad while being a pain in the
butt to get on the tower was a much superior performing antenna per he.



Jimmie


Could be. However I have VHF/UHF antennas above that would not work
with a quad.

"John Siegel" wrote in message
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I am thinking it may finally be time to replace my old tribander. Based on
size, weight, mast size and power handling capability, I found two popular
models that are good candidates. Looking for comments and comparisons
between the HyGain TH3MK4 and the Cushcraft A3s.
73
John


What is an "old tribander" -- Wilson? Mosley? Homemade?

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