Morgan, Very interesting report regarding your FD activities. I have - although I do not use any more a Moxton Rectangle called a “Cobweb” after Steve Cobb who designed and built it.
My experiences over the past 10 years with it has been Positive points a) It Works b) Tunes well c) Simple - to Install and Repair d) Low Weight yielding great survivability e) Relatively Omni directional Give it a go - I am 100% sure it will work for you. regards Tim - A45WG > On 28 Jun 2016, at 19:25, Morgan Bailey <mbaileyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Kaw Valley ARC in Topeka, Kansas has been doing field day for many > years. It has run hot and cold. With the sun spot cycle heading in to the > dumpster, 40 and 80 and possibly 160 will be the money bands for operation. > This year my son, NS0R and I, NJ8M, worked, planned, built antennas and our > club bought a set of band pass filters for 20 15 and 10. These were the new > DX Engineering ones. They used a Triplexer and associated filters for the > tribander. 2 dipoles one for 80 and one for 40 were set up for the club > phone stations. They ran 2 stations there. Their radios are Icom 7000s. > Most of our phone ops are not used to non arm chair copy and had GREAT > difficulty listening through the QRM. > > This year we had a goal of 3000 qso's. bummer that we did not quite make > it, 2701. Well there is always next year. > > The CW station that we operated was with one K3 and a K3S. Simple 6btv, 20 > meter half square and 3 element 40 meter vertical array. With those > antennas we were able to work 1600 cw Qs and about 200 ssb Qs. The K3/S > performed well. No hitch or glitch. We had fun, now back to the drawing > board for next years antennas. We are thinking about moxon for 20 meters > and keeping the 40 meter array and then putting up a 53 ft vertical with a > 9:1 unun to a remote latching relay tuner for 80 and etc instead of the > 6btv. > > We have not wanted to get into the tower stuff but the phone guys, AKA, the > rest of the club, put up the tower for ssb and made less then 300 Qs on 20, > it is just a waste. > > We have found out that simpler antennas are best. > > I Was wondering if any one has much experience with a moxon beam antenna? > > Very 73, > > Morgan Bailey NJ8M > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to a4...@sy-edm.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com