Thank you Jim! Nicest guy on earth. Man I turned the rotor 360 degrees this evening and the swr dropped on the 6m yagi. Maybe we’ll get some E soon. It’s few n far between for us in our grid locations:)
@@JayN4GO You are sop right about 6m E signals. A couple of weeks ago I set up my Buddipole Two Element Yagi for 6 m and almost jumped out of my skin when I heard a beacon in Florida. Starting sending CQ for 5 minutes but never gone a reply. That's the way the MJAIC BAND works.
Nice to see a great tower and beam up there. I can only dream of anything like this in my constrained space. Hope to work you on air some day. I am QRV on 40/20/15/10m with my '100W and wire'! 73 de Jon, VU2JO
Should work pretty good. How high is the tower? Yes it’s a big deal to take large towers and antennas down. I think a lot harder than putting them up. I have had some moderately large towers and Yagis. I thought a Rohn 45 fold over would be a good idea. So I got one. A friend also got two on the same deliver. Not bad putting it up. It also folded over fairly easy so I could put my 6 element 10 meter on it. However when I sold the 10 meter Yagi ( six 16 foot long elements) and a 23 foot boom) and bought a 4 element 20 meter Yagi ( 33 foot elements and 26 foot boom) the fold over feature was not so good. I ended up never folding it over again. As second reason for not folding it over was my friend had a cable break on his when his antenna was almost down! Also another guy had his fold over boom break. Then I heard of others breaking! I figured it was easier and safer to just climb the tower to install and uninstall the big Yagis. Otherwise the Rohn 47 was a great tower and not so big I could not do it myself with just one helper on the ground. Mine was 70 feet. Pics are on my QRZ page. I no longer have the towers but still have the 4 element Yagi in the original box just in case…. 73, N4DJ
Hi Don! Yeah I agree! Tower work is a lot of work. Very difficult to do alone which is a huge downside. This one is only 40ft but I hope to have a 70ft one day if I can find some land like you have. Or perhaps just use the tall trees and wire. Looks like baseball season for you! I hope you get some wpx in this weekend. :)
Congrats on getting the force 12 up. I have a 3 element 6m beam by CushCraft with the driven element of a tribander (A3S) sitting below it, I haven't noticed any change in SWR at all, but I guess there's big difference in the amount of aluminum.. Have a tailtwister t2x? (I think) thing is probably overkill for my use but it works. My antennas are only ~19 ft up :(
Yeah I’m assuming it’s probably the feed point at the 6m match. I don’t think it’s interaction either. Yes , I had a local dxer warn me about the yaesu mast clamps. He only runs t2x on 3 towers. They are made of steel back before everything went Taiwanese. Haha
@@JayN4GO 6m is a rather forgiving band vis-a-vis antennas, so surprised there's an issue with it. I agree that it's likely not interaction. That said, did you check it with an antenna analyzer first? Otherwise, glad it was you and not me installing the C3...I couldn't have done it. 73! de WX0V
@@SuburbanDXing thanks man! So there’s a short somewhere on the 6m yagi. I always check the antennas with an analyzer. Today I kept the coax in the analyzer and spun the rotor and the swr dropped to 1.4. Gladly it’s to the west. Where I need grids. It does bounce back up to 6 when beaming se-east. I paid a tower monkey to do this for me. It wasn’t cheap for sure but our clubs have no tower guys. Hope you’re doing ok! Enjoying these wonderful band condx? 😆
Jay, I'm so happy for you. You've been waiting a long time for this. Enjoy it my brother!
Thank you Jim! Nicest guy on earth. Man I turned the rotor 360 degrees this evening and the swr dropped on the 6m yagi. Maybe we’ll get some E soon. It’s few n far between for us in our grid locations:)
@@JayN4GO You are sop right about 6m E signals. A couple of weeks ago I set up my Buddipole Two Element Yagi for 6 m and almost jumped out of my skin when I heard a beacon in Florida. Starting sending CQ for 5 minutes but never gone a reply. That's the way the MJAIC BAND works.
What a pleasant surprise to meet you here! Coming straight away to your channel! 73 de Jon, VU2JO.
Niiiiiiiiiice set up, brother.
Hi Lance! Thanks brother. We’ll see how wpx goes this weekend :)
Congrats on getting the new antenna up! Hope you get a lot of good use out of it, OM. Sorry to hear the 6m is gonna need more tweaking. 73 de N4AAJ
Thanks man! Yeah it’s a pita bc the big triband will have to slide up to reach that. 6m has always been cursed for me. Haha
Nice to see a great tower and beam up there. I can only dream of anything like this in my constrained space. Hope to work you on air some day. I am QRV on 40/20/15/10m with my '100W and wire'! 73 de Jon, VU2JO
Thank you Johnson! I hope it stays up. We’re getting 80mph wind 😂
@@JayN4GO See you on air. 73
@@JayN4GO See you on air. 73
Should work pretty good. How high is the tower? Yes it’s a big deal to take large towers and antennas down. I think a lot harder than putting them up. I have had some moderately large towers and Yagis. I thought a Rohn 45 fold over would be a good idea. So I got one. A friend also got two on the same deliver. Not bad putting it up. It also folded over fairly easy so I could put my 6 element 10 meter on it. However when I sold the 10 meter Yagi ( six 16 foot long elements) and a 23 foot boom) and bought a 4 element 20 meter Yagi ( 33 foot elements and 26 foot boom) the fold over feature was not so good. I ended up never folding it over again. As second reason for not folding it over was my friend had a cable break on his when his antenna was almost down! Also another guy had his fold over boom break. Then I heard of others breaking! I figured it was easier and safer to just climb the tower to install and uninstall the big Yagis. Otherwise the Rohn 47 was a great tower and not so big I could not do it myself with just one helper on the ground. Mine was 70 feet. Pics are on my QRZ page. I no longer have the towers but still have the 4 element Yagi in the original box just in case…. 73, N4DJ
Hi Don! Yeah I agree! Tower work is a lot of work. Very difficult to do alone which is a huge downside. This one is only 40ft but I hope to have a 70ft one day if I can find some land like you have. Or perhaps just use the tall trees and wire. Looks like baseball season for you! I hope you get some wpx in this weekend. :)
Nice antenna. Congrads 73 de KC3SJ
Thank you Steve. Will you be at field day this year ?
@@JayN4GO Yes I will spend some time at CW stations
@@stevej5905hope to see you there
Congrats on getting the force 12 up. I have a 3 element 6m beam by CushCraft with the driven element of a tribander (A3S) sitting below it, I haven't noticed any change in SWR at all, but I guess there's big difference in the amount of aluminum.. Have a tailtwister t2x? (I think) thing is probably overkill for my use but it works. My antennas are only ~19 ft up :(
Yeah I’m assuming it’s probably the feed point at the 6m match. I don’t think it’s interaction either.
Yes , I had a local dxer warn me about the yaesu mast clamps. He only runs t2x on 3 towers. They are made of steel back before everything went Taiwanese. Haha
@@JayN4GO 6m is a rather forgiving band vis-a-vis antennas, so surprised there's an issue with it. I agree that it's likely not interaction. That said, did you check it with an antenna analyzer first? Otherwise, glad it was you and not me installing the C3...I couldn't have done it. 73! de WX0V
@@SuburbanDXing thanks man! So there’s a short somewhere on the 6m yagi. I always check the antennas with an analyzer. Today I kept the coax in the analyzer and spun the rotor and the swr dropped to 1.4. Gladly it’s to the west. Where I need grids. It does bounce back up to 6 when beaming se-east.
I paid a tower monkey to do this for me. It wasn’t cheap for sure but our clubs have no tower guys. Hope you’re doing ok! Enjoying these wonderful band condx? 😆
@@JayN4GO Of course...the Greatest Cycle Ever!