Roof Mount Hexbeam
Note also the footing that protects his roof from the legs of the mini tower.
Roof mount hexbeam. The typical support structure for a hexagonal beam is a push up mast a roof mast a chimney mast or numerous other creative arrangements. To be fair it is mounted in a much more ideal location than the bigir i have mine mounted up at 35ft on a 4 5ft glen martin roof mounted tower. Swr is low as 1 1 2 on all 6 bands. We build all the components tune the wires and pack it up so all you have to do is spend an evening assembling a plug and play beam and have the best broadband hex in the world ready to go.
My first thought was to roof mount the antenna on the chimney but the xyl did not like the idea of having the antenna facing the front of the house. Mount it on your roof as many do and work dx you never even heard with your vertical or dipole. You can see a wide variety of these here and with a little thought come up with a support structure that fits your situation. Vk2gjc has a rotator mounted at the top of his mast which is attached to the side of his house.
Finally i mounted my new hexbeam antenna on the roof. Aditional tunning was not needed and all was pl. I installed an sp7idx hexbeam on my carport roof in september. Very high quality and no tweaking required.
Save yourself all this trouble and get a g3txq broadband hexagonal beam of premium quality components already built. Despite neighborhood covenants and restrictions you can frequently find a way. The hex beam has taken things to another level. Just don t be in a hurry to get it.
Made of the highest quality materials and advanced engineering. Ik2wpo uses a small rotator on a guyed mast to support his hexagonal beam by k4kio. It is being rotated by a yaesu g450a rotator despite this fact there is no doubt that having a beam antenna makes all the difference in the world. So i came up with the idea to ground mount the antenna using a push up pole.
Not to mention it would not be easy for me to get to if it needed any repairs. I am still amazed how quiet this antenna is.