[ForSale-Swap] Old antenna question

[n3drk]

I had the mini hybrid quad. Do not waste your money. I would turn the beam a
full 360 and there was no difference in signal strength. A dipole performs
better than this antenna.

john

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Kass" <k8wbl at yahoo.com>
To: "Ray Friess" <rayfri at highstream.net>; "gb"
<glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu>; <FORSALE-SWAP at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] Old antenna question


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> Hello Ray,
>
> I remember Mini products HQ-1 mini beam, followed by the hybrid
quad...similar, in fact my friend still has the parts to the mini beam I
gave him some years ago...
>
> Idea was simple...loading coils at the ends of the elements, with capacity
hats (spikes), then another loading coil with more spikes and so on...I
believe mine had a total of six loading coils and six sets of spikes on the
DE and REF (3 on each end).  The boom was something like 6 or 7 feet I
think..I never used the one I had, but Id guess it was increaibly narrow
banded and deaf, along with limited to no F/B .. good luck.
>
> 73, Tim
> K8WBL
>
> Ray Friess <rayfri at highstream.net> wrote:
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>
> Years ago.... back in the 70s in fact ... there was a company called
> Mini-Products Inc, which
> had several beam and vertical antennas they sold... Model B-24
> beam... C-4 vertical ... etc.
>
> This is a long shot, but I'd like to find some manuals or information on
> them to see if they can
> be "recreated" homebrew....
>
> >From what I can find on the internet, the company is one of those that
> ... like so many of our old
> favorites from yesteryear .... folded shop.
>
> Ray wa7itz
>
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