Hello to the group. Recently at a local hamfest I noticed a pile of aluminum
next to a guys truck. Asking about it, he explained it was a 5 element 6 meter
beam that he thought is an M2.He went on to tell me that he had used it for
several years and that it had high SWR and he used it with a tuner of some type.
Otherwise it worked very well. We worked out a deal and I am now the owner of
this antenna. It needs some cleaning up. From some research that I found a pdf
file from M2, it looks to be a 6M5X model. My question is why would the SWR be
high? The T match and coax balun all look to be good. The only thing I can see
is that the T match rods look to be long. They are 14 3/8 " each side of the
block. This looks longer than the pictorial in the pdf file from M2. They do not
give a length for this rod. I found some info that M2 offered an upgrade kit for
the 6M5, could this possibly be a partially upgraded 6M5? The boom and element
lengths all match the 6M5X. Would anyone have the T match rod length for the
6M5X?
Thanks and 73, Randy, w5kcm