Bought a 4 element dual band yagi. I have little gripe about the actual antenna, but the phasing harness is crap.
They use super cheap crimp on connectors that won't allow the center conductor to fully seat, which allows slop. The outer shell has a brass looking retaining clip which holds the out shell on. If you try to tighten to remove the slop, the ring snaps.
I had to replace all 4 connectors. This might be why eham flunkies are griping about SWR and tuning issues. Once fixed, the antenna required no tuning and works as I hoped. I'm using this yagi for fixed purposes.
I'm getting ready to order the 10 element dual polarity beam for regular CW/SSB use with a rotor on my hillbilly rooftop tripod contraption since it requires two feeds, I won't have to worry about junky connectors.
They use super cheap crimp on connectors that won't allow the center conductor to fully seat, which allows slop. The outer shell has a brass looking retaining clip which holds the out shell on. If you try to tighten to remove the slop, the ring snaps.
I had to replace all 4 connectors. This might be why eham flunkies are griping about SWR and tuning issues. Once fixed, the antenna required no tuning and works as I hoped. I'm using this yagi for fixed purposes.
I'm getting ready to order the 10 element dual polarity beam for regular CW/SSB use with a rotor on my hillbilly rooftop tripod contraption since it requires two feeds, I won't have to worry about junky connectors.