[Antennas] Re: Dual Band beam

[KG4FET96 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/9/2006 3:51:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
antennas-request at mailman.qth.net writes:

Looking  for recommendations on a end mount 2m/440 Dual Band Beam.

Is cushcraft  the only one that makes one?

Thanks de John  KØCQW



My .02 cents worth,
I use the Cushcraft 270-10s dual band beam here.  It is mounted  vertical and 
I have used it for 2M and 70cm fm dx'ing and for satellite work as  well.  It 
was able to hear the sats as soon as the predicted pass  started until it 
ended.  I bought this beam just after I became a ham with  little research and 
virtually no knowledge of antenna systems and how they  worked. 7 years later 
and a great deal of experience later in  building antennas and it's still up and 
I have no plans to take it  down.  It does the job, BUT it needs a little 
help to survive. I have  had the beam down once to do maintenance on it.  In the 
slty air here  it corrodes in a hurry.  To help prevent this I cleaned all  
connections with a wire brush and rubbed Ox-gard  in ALL of them  including in 
the Ubolts ,boom to mast clamps and the elements.   This  has done the job. 
Well this has been more then .02 worth 
GL es God Bless
DE KG4FET Sandor