[FARC] Re: Hamsticks - opinions please

[Philip Karras]

Joe,

I used to do that allot for 40m & I believe I did have a set for 80m but found it
not as good as I had hoped. These are extremely short for 80m but they did work and
I believe I was able to get into MEPN & the MDD/MSN with them during SETs. I then
used a real 80m dipole on PVC pipe 20' up at the center & 12' up at the ends which
worked much better, once I found the short.

Last, let me say that it doesn't cost all that much to buy a pair & the mounting
hardware (less if you can make it or make-due, which I did) so give it a go. I'm a
very strong believer in experimenting because you-never-know, no matter who gives
you advice from "years of experience" it is probably not experience in your exact
situation & you won't know unless you try.

By the way, I kept the pair of 40m sticks & I still use one mobile for Field day if
I can not go anywhere, the pair have not been used in years. I found the 80m I kept,
had problems when run mobile using a mag-mount but it did work.

Good-luck & let us know how it works out!

73 de ke3fl
Phil Karras
AEC Carroll County



--- "Joseph M. Durnal" <joseph.durnal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm going to try and make a last ditch effort to get on 75 meters from
> my town house.  So far just about everything I have tried has not
> worked well enough for traffic handling, and often, not even well
> enough to even check into the MEPN on 3820 kHz.  Next and last on the
> list is to build a hamstick dipole to be mounted horizontally on the
> chimney.  Has anyone tried this for 75 meters?  Of course, it will be
> a short antenna, just 14 feet end to end, which will be the most
> limiting factor, and the bandwidth of a 75 meter hamstick looks to be
> about 10 kHz, but that is fine, I'll just have to stay on or near 3820
> kHz, which is mostly what I'm interested in anyway.  There seem to be
> a few brands of hamstick style antennas - does anyone know if one is
> better than the other?  The first google result returns the Lakeview
> company - http://www.hamstick.com/9106.htm  Is there a better choice?
> 
> I'd prefer to buy the best hamstick available at the Frederick Amateur
> Radio Club hamfest in June - I wonder if there will be any vendors
> selling them?
> 
> 73 de Joseph Durnal NE3R
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