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Waldothe3rd
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Tak-Tenna

OK, Hanging around here has made me find the gear that was stored in the milk-crate in the garage and consider getting active again. I have ample room for an antenna, but power lines cross the back yard diagonally making it difficult to put up any major sized antennas or even dipoles for that matter. I have found the Tak-Tenna »www.tak-tenna.com which looks interesting. Has anyone worked any stations using one of these? Any opinions? TIA
permalink · 2009-06-16 15:30:15 · Reply to this

tigers

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Re: Tak-Tenna

Have you seen this: »www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6775

Those are pretty high marks all around it would seem.
permalink · 2009-06-16 17:24:02 · Reply to this

Waldothe3rd
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Re: Tak-Tenna

I saw those high marks which peaked my curiosity, but then I saw a couple of entries where there was a 2 S-unit increase using a dipole... I guess I'm looking for the proverbial full-sized performance in a compact design!
permalink · 2009-06-16 20:42:48 · Reply to this

drjim
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Re: Tak-Tenna

Yep, until they repeal a couple of Laws of Physics, you'll never get full-size performance from a very compact antenna.
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One man's Magic is another man's Engineering.
permalink · 2009-06-16 20:47:37 · Reply to this
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