[Elecraft] High vertical

[tomb18 at videotron.ca]

Hi Robert,I can't seem to find any other messages in the reflector about this topic. But in any case I have owned both a Cushcraft R6000, and a HyGain AV620.I used both for at least 6 months before moving to a cushcraft ma5b mini beam.
Both antennas seemed to offer similar performance. In this regard, I would give the edge to the hy-gain. Both were excellent for dx, I made many qrp qso's from Montreal to australia.
The cushcraft had one annoying feature: The minute it rained or snowed, the resonance went far off where it was when dry. 200khz on 20m for example. The elecraft tuner took care of it but it was annoying.
The hygain has a lot of threaded rods which need to be adjust to reach resonance. These rods are prone to seizing the nuts on them. But once they re set the antenna never shifted in resonance.
The hygain brought me up to 200+ DXCC's. But I can tell you this: Both are no substitute for the MA5B.
Both are extremely noisy. The MA5B gives two 2 S unit improvement as a minimum in almost all cases, but the noise floor dropped 15dB.
Anyways, they both are good antennas, but I would suppliment them with an active antenna and a noise phaser to null out the noise sources, which improves them considerably.
Hope this helps.
Tom 
va2fsq.com

On 10/19/14, Robert G Strickland  <rcrgs at verizon.net> wrote:
> Vic...
> Any thoughts on choosing the Cushcraft over the Hy-Gain for a vertical?
> ...robert
> 
> On 10/18/2014 14:55, Vic Rosenthal K2VCO/4X6GP wrote:
> >
> >I put up an R8 vertical on a small building (containing my shack) that
> >sits on the roof.
> 
> -- 
> Robert G Strickland, PhD ABPH - KE2WY
> rcrgs at verizon.net.usa
> Syracuse, New York, USA
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