Sometime ago I reported about a cool building project of the Team Thunderbox, some guys from England. I’ve noticed the link is dead right now. But no worries! Arend, PA2AWU did read that article on my blog and send me a message. He wanted to build this cubicle quad for 40m himself and so he needed the fiberglass telescopic poles. If I was interested in participate to get a few for myself.
Of course I was! So Arend ordered a few and build the cubical quad for the CQWW SSB this year. He send me an e-mail a few weeks ago to let me know that the cubical quad worked perfectly and he was surprised about the performance! 1400+ QSO’s where made on 40m. He also send me a picture of their quad (inserted in this message). Very cool!
Now I’ve got my four fiberglass telescopic poles and as promised I would build a Skywire Loop Antenna with them. The wire is already prepared, all the connectors are there. The only thing I need to figure out is how to keep the poles up in the air. Then I will take the whole package to a area where I can build the thing. Reports will be online shortly after of course!
Hi !
Where i can find more infos and pics of PA2AWU quads?
It’s amazing project !
regards
73 Mario IK1LBL
Hi Mario!
First of all: happy newyear! I’ve looked on qrz.com for the contact information of PA2AWU. I did see it isn’t there, so I’ve send him an email to post a comment here. I hope he will soon!
73’s DE PA1JIM, Jim
Mario & Jim,
hmm, where to start abt the Cubical Quad story? Yes, it really is a good DX performer. As Contest group, (www.pa6z.nl) we needed better than the two element Phased Vertical, we used till now. But we only have a 18 mtr construction mast available for this antenna. I put the quad as high as possible in the rotor tube, result: 19 meter 🙂 On 40 mtrs, height is reason number one to get a low radiation angle. On 19 mtrs height, there will be an angle of abt 28 degrees with ground. No good for a real contest gun 🙁 I invested much time in our quad design, using the superb 4NEC2 antenna design program from author Arie Voors (shareware, pse Google this!!!) I’ll write an article and put it on our contest site soon. It’s to much to put here 🙂 And informing interested amateurs is worth it! 73’s es cu in contest ?