[Boatanchors] Off topic??

[Revcom]

John,
No personal experience.  Helped a couple buddies build them and put them up. 
Not a real popular antenna in the
windy, and sometimes icy, plains of Kansas.  If I remember right, they do 
not have as much "ground effect" de-
tuning as a yagi when testing.

Quad was developed by W9LZX for the high powered station, Voice of the 
Andes, HCJB.  Closed radiator did not
corona with high power at the high elevation.

Wikipedia has data on it and Orr's radio handbooks of past had a lot of 
data.  There used to be a company that made
the "spreaders" out of aluminum you could put bamboo poles on.

Local area ham used to say the quad was not big enough if it didn't fall 
down in Kansas wind!

Rod
K0EQH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John King" <k5pgw at yahoo.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Off topic??


>I don't know if an antenna can be a boatanchor or not. Hopefully, I can 
>find a knowledgeable old timer who has experience with cubical quad 
>antennas.  Anyway, this quad will be on the BUSINESS END  of a boatanchor.
>
> If anyone has assembled a cubical quad on the ground and run preliminary 
> checks on the ground and in the air, I would appreciate it you would email 
> me off reflector so we can discuss the matter.
>
> I only have a couple of question and will appreciate hearing from you. 73, 
> John, K5PGW
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________