[Antennas] compare dx88 , butternut, or gap voyager

[ab2et@juno.com]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:32:33 -0500 "paul" <mglassman@cinci.rr.com>
writes:
> which antenna would you recommend for 160 meter work?
> dx88 , butternut, or gap voyager  , thanks  paul w8jn 
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Paul,
If you can put up a 45 foot high "vertical"  and you can put in the 4 guy
anchor points 25 ft away. from base mount then the  GAP Voyager is hard
to beat on top band and 80,
Had one mounted at my QTH for about 3 years  when I was l very active  on
low bands.
The need for only 3 Counterpoise  at 57 ft. in length made it very
flexible. in comparison to my previous vertical  which was a butternut
which required a "ton" of radials about  which the wife constantly harped
about.
  
Performance on 160  and 80/75 DX was outstanding,  40  performance was
much better in comparison to the butternut  20 was about equal.
With the  tilting ground mount erection  was a easy task, I actually took
her down easily one time by my self when we had a "nasty" hurricane
heading our way this after making a"Y" cradle to keep the "Top Hat"  off
the ground
Had to take her down last year when I started to travel for the job again
one of the concessions to the xyl, sold her to my  friend in the next
town over and the only thing that he had to get was a new ground mount as
my  was in a chunk of cement the Voyager is till active.


73's  Steve
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