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

[k8jm at usol.com]

> 
> 
> -----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.
> 
> ==========
> 
>      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
> 
 I am interested in both antennas.
I can be reached via my email address or at (740)-440 0512.
I'm also in the market for a 50-70 foot free stander if anyone knows 
of one that is available.


73, John K8JM


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