[50mhz] WTB: MFJ-1764 Dual 2m/6m antenna

[Christopher Boone]

John,
better to build than buy this one! I did buy one for a try on a 6m 
project....and for the price, I thought the construction was cheap cheap 
cheap...the creamnic insulators will break too easily and the whip are 
flimsy....I still have mine up (using it as a CP antenna on 6m...one is 
horiz with the elements bent back at 45deg in a Horiz V shape...the 
other is true vertical...mounted at the same height on the pole..spaced 
by their booms...and fed 90deg out of phase (added an extra piece of 
coax in line to get the 90deg phase)....works ok BUT for less money, you 
can build one yourself..

Get 4 1/4wave whips from RS(108in), get the dual whip mounts used by 
HamSticks to make their mobile antennas into dipoles (buy 2 of those),
cut the whips to the correct length (all 4 must be the same length), 
attach coax made of RG59 to act as matching network (1/4wave + 1/2wave 
mulitple) and put a T at the end....now you have the same thing as the 
MFJ...but cheaper and BETTER mechanically.

(I'd sell you my MFJ but it's 30ft off the ground and too much of a pain 
to take down right now)

NOW if they had made it like the DB212 series, I would have bought more.

Chris
WB5ITT

John Geiger wrote:

> I am hoping to find a MFJ-1764 Dual 2m/6m
> omnidirectional antenna if someone has an old one for
> sale.  This is the antenna that works as a dipole on
> 6, and as 2 x 5/8 wave on 2 meters.  Anyone have an
> extra for sale?
> 
> 73s John NE0P
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