[WVDXA] FW: CushCraft R-7 Looking for a Home

[Pstark]

-----Original Message-----
From: Clark Stewart [mailto:w8tn.wv at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:08 PM
To: pstark at suddenlink.net
Subject: CushCraft R-7 Looking for a Home


Pete,

     Would you please forward this to the WVDXA Reflector and the WV
ARRL Reflector (if you can.)  Thanks.  Hopefully I'll have my email
working again at the new house in about a week.

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     I have a CushCraft R-7 vertical antenna that is looking for a new
home.  The antenna has suffered a little bit of structural damage in a
storm last week but it can be easily repaired.  The damage is just
that the bottom most piece of aluminum tubing is bent out of line and
it can probably be bent back with a little care and the box that
houses the matching network needs repaired.

     The antenna works on 40-M through 10-M including the WARC bands
and, since it is a 1/2 wave antenna, it does not need a ground system.
 It has about 10 thin wires which act as a counterpoise at the base.
If you mount the antenna so that the base is about 7 feet above
ground, this presents no problem.

     The antenna worked better than any other vertical I have owned
and I worked nearly all my WARC contacts with it.  As I recall there
was a problem with 40-M and 30-M last winter so I may have damaged a
capacitor or toroid in the low-band circuit and that would need to be
fixed for the antenna to perform on those bands.

     I have about 70-feet of RG-8 coax that goes with the antenna and
that length does not include the RF Choke which is at the end of the
cable.

     If anyone is interested, I can bring it to Huntington this
weekend or to Jackson's Mill later this month.  Contact Clark, W8TN,
at this email address if you are interested:

w8tn.wv at gmail.com

     BTW, I also have a CushCraft A4S tri-bander that is looking for a
home as well.

Clark, W8TN
Mr. SteppIR