"Jay in the Mojave" wrote in message
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Hello Jimmie D:

Yeah there are after market and some antenna manufactures sell larger
diameter Gamma Matches to handle higher voltage in order to handle high
power output. The costly thing in the Gamma Matches is the use of a good
insulator like Teflon is real expensive.

I just put up a Moonraker 4 with some new and improved parts and pieces,
but still had the stock Gamma Matches. The Hubs, Mast to Boom mounting
plate, and and few other things had been updated, but I was disappointed
with the antennas performance. And I ran one of these antennas for a long
time.

Jay in the Mojave

Jimmie D wrote:

Hi Jay, didnt know you could buy gamma matches. A guy gave me a Moonraker
4 beam a few years ago that had some damage . The gamma mctches had been
damaged so I replaced them with a piece of Al tubing and a piece of RGa
that had the shield stripped off.

The moonraker is a pretty decent antenna but like a lot of CB antennas the
manufctures were trying to sell elements. They stuff as many elements as
they can on a boom that is still UPS shipable. I remember back in the 70s
how a few people would claim that ther e3 element beam was better than the 4
they used to have and now I believe they may have been right. I extended the
boom on mine and respaced the elements vertical for 11M and horizontal for
10. Any way I guess the point I was trying to make to start with before I
rambled is that my Al tubing and coax gamma match easily handles a full KW
on 10. Why cant the manufacturers make something that is so easy to make? At
the risk of appearing to answer my own question I think it was because if
they did consumers would realize you can go down to the hardware store and
buy the parts and roll your own about as easy as you can build thiers out of
the box.