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This was the initial installation of my GAP Titan. I put it up in the middle of the back yard just to start using it. My wife Lisa was pretty unhappy about this big old eyesore right smack in the middle of the back yard, and right in the middle of the view out of the kitchen window, so the antenna had to come down. This shot shows the antenna just before I took it down. You can see our dog Chibi who was assigned to make sure I did the job right. And no, that's not a 15 foot fence. The perspective of is all wacky here. The Titan is about 28 feet tall, mounted on a 10 foot mast, so I took the picture from a low angle in order to get the entire antenna in the frame. I moved the Titan to the side of the house where it was permanently mounted on a ten foot mast held in place by 240 pounds of concrete. I kept the guy ropes on the antenna, but only for safety in case of gusty winds. The antenna was fairly close, in fact the counterpose was almost touching the house, but the SWR was low and it seemed to perform just great. In early 2003, I inherited a 29 foot Rohn tower and Hy-Gain beam antenna from Bill, WA7SVC. So I took the Titan down in anticipation of putting up the tower. I gave the Titan to my friend Carter, W7IAG and it is now up and ready for action at his QTH. I haven't, as of this writing, raised the tower here, but I'm working on it. In the meantime I'm back to using a dinky dipole up about 25 feet. |
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This was a 17 meter 2-element Moxon beam that I built with parts from Home Depot.
Everything on this antenna, with the exception of the balun and coax, was made from
readily available hardware and cost around $40 to build.
It has (in theory) about 6 dBi gain and utilized a reliable Armstrong rotator system. It's an ugly ducking, and weighed a ton because the structure is made from 2x4's, but it worked great!
Well, this eyesore is now in storage and the TV antenna mast it was mounted on currently supports a Comet GP-6 for 144/440 MHz and one corner of a wire loop.
