So much for building a moxon today....

[mb91w126]

I shouldn't have even turned on the radio this morning. Conditions to UK, Germany, and France were great today. West coast started coming in mid afternoon. Spent 6 hours chatting. I'm not turning it on tomorrow!

 

[binrat]

Right, sure you are not turning it on tomorrow

 

[space cowboy]

. I'm not turning it on tomorrow!

c'mon, you know you want to...

 

[mb91w126]

Yes I wanted to but I made it home depot and bought a bunch of parts. Feed point is built, now on too measuring once and cutting 5 times ;-)

 

[space cowboy]

now on too measuring once and cutting 5 times ;-)

we so need to work on a project together. imagine all the spare parts we would have.

 

[mb91w126]

first attempt, not tuned yet, not half bad...

 

[mb91w126]

first tuning pass, getting closer.....

 

[vkrules]

Not bad at all, whats the front to back like?

 

[mb91w126]

Not bad at all,

Thanks, I'm pretty satisfied.

whats the front to back like?

unknown, I don't have a tool to measure that yet, not certain that I want to allocate resources just to look at a number that I wouldn't be able to tune anyway.

I must admit it is a bit annoying when listening to UK stations calling CQ and half of Texas walks all over them. Beam is pointed @ 55* .

 

[HomerBB]

I have had great front to back performance from mine. I can take a local 10+ s-unit signal down to around 2 s-units, and a DX signal can be reduced significantly. I have had better back end rejection from the Moxon than any of the 2-element quads I've run.
I don't know what your height above ground is, but I suspect it does better above 1/2 wavelength high. This idea is based on the difference I've noticed when working a Moxon low to the ground during construction and tuning, and higher up when using it on its permanent mount.

 

[mb91w126]

I don't know what your height above ground is, but I suspect it does better above 1/2 wavelength high. This idea is based on the difference I've noticed when working a Moxon low to the ground during construction and tuning, and higher up when using it on its permanent mount.

It was tuned about 1.33 meters above ground laying on two wooden closet doors sitting on top of two plastic recycling barrels . When it is erected on the roof, it will be about 10 meters above ground.

 

[M0GVZ]

Yeah you can't really tune them that low because of ground losses. Its going to be way out. You'll most likely find its tuned way too high and you need to lengthen the wires.

 

[Robb]

I tuned my 4 element Yagi by pointing it skyward resting on the reflector.
That will work just fine . . .

 

[mb91w126]

construction complete.

third pic is the Y-quad stuck in the tree @ 55 degrees

 

[vkrules]

A conduit masterpiece!