[ForSale-Swap] Beam help needed

[AA6DX - Mark]

`Tis a Mosely .. that is the infamous Mosely "CLASSIC" feed system. 
Interesting to note, the driven element can be longer than the reflector .. 
don't remember on tribanders, but obviously so on monobanders....
Mark Nelson  -  AA6DX

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Subject: [ForSale-Swap] Beam help needed


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Need the help of the group.
Today I took down a 30 foot tower and a triband beam at a ham widow's home.
The beam I thought was a Mosely TA-33 ... it has the cylindrical traps
like a TA-33.   However, looking at the TA-33 manual
on BAMA, I'm not so sure now.
On the driven element, when I disassembled the sections, there was an
unterminated length of coax on each side of the coax connection.
It was just inside the elements ... almost like the antenna was being
capacitive fed.
The center connections for the coax on the driven element are not like
the TA-33 manual either...    There is a so-239 at the center on a black
cylindrical insulater that the driven element halves are fastened into.
So I'm not sure it is a TA-33 ... unless it is a newer model of TA-33..

Anyone have any ideas?
Ray   WA7ITZ

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