[Elecraft] High vertical

[Vic Rosenthal K2VCO/4X6GP]

For what it's worth, the R6000 is very different from the R8.

On 20 Oct 2014 05:48, tomb18 at videotron.ca wrote:
> 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


-- 
Vic

-- 
73,
Vic, K2VCO/4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/