Thanks, I think we are close! Mine is 9 bands, and easily tunes 6
meters, but otherwise it looks like the AP-8(A).

Thanks for your help here.

73,

Rick

On Wed, 11 May 2005 19:38:37 -0500, "gb"
wrote:

"Little O'Me" wrote in message
ardnews.com...
Greetings to all the resident knowledge in this group.

I am trying to figure out what HF antenna I have.

That's about it. Any help anyone can provide would really be
appreciated.

73,

Rick, WM6M

The base description you say it is like a Cushcraft vertical antenna.
When you said 85" .. I immediately thought of the AV-5 (but it can't run on
6 meters - that I am aware of)
Cushcraft have made many vertical antennas (both 1/2 wave and 1/4 wave);
R3, R4, R5, R6, R6000, R7, R7000, R8 (1/2 waves)
AP8(A), AV-3, AV-4, AV-5
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R5 1/2 wave maintenance and repair
http://home.planet.nl/~fhvgeerligs/Ant/R5/onhr5eng.htm

AP8 (PowerWave)
http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~cmao/ham_radio/ham-04.html

AV-x series (the AV-4 and AV-5 had a "X" capacity hat)
I owned the AV-3 in the 1980s - nice 1/4 wave antenna - does need radials
http://www.cushcraft.com/support/pdf/av3482.pdf

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