Tennadyne antennae

I am looking at buying an antennae from Tennadyne, it is a log-periodic multiband (maybe the T6) and wondering if anyone has one or knows about the performance of this antennae.. always nice to get advice first..I found this website on the "Human Race" website www.humanrace.fr.st click on ENTER, then the Tennadyne icon..Thanks in advance, and hope to get some feed back ...

[wb6bcn]

The Log Periodic Antenna is a great antenna as for flatness of impedance over a large frequency spectrum. Another benefit they can be made lighter and stronger than an equivelant trap yagi antenna. From the listed specs I would say it isn't a bad choice. I haven't tried that exact antenna, but I know from other log periodic antenna I have worked with, you can't beat that design where multiple bands are concerned. The main thing with any HF beam antenna is a good sturdy pole or better yet, tower, and a healthy rotor.
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Added info:

Tennadyne company homepage:

http://www.tennadyne.com/

Specs and prices:

http://www.tennadyne.com/specs&prices.htm (http://www.tennadyne.com/specs&prices.htm)

[K4TG]

You can read some reviews of the Tennadyne T6 at this site:

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/615



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[WB2WIK]

I own a T6, and have had it up for about 16 months now. I think one of the eHam.net reviews referenced earlier was mine.

It works extraordinarily well for its rather short boom length. Having no matching devices, traps or loading of any kind (the whole antenna is nothing but a lot of aluminum tubing), there's no place for any power to be dissipated, so obviously it's highly efficient.

The only caveat I can think of is that the T6 turning radius is huge compared with, say, a 3 or 4-element tribander. The huge turning radius comes from the fact that it has a 40' long element (rear) right at the end of its booms. The T6 will not rotate in some places where a conventional Yagi would have no problem rotating at all.

It is convenient to have one beam that works well and covers 20-17-15-12-10 meters (and then some!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif, and not a bad compromise. The Tennadyne takes extreme winds quite well, too -- we've had 50mph sustained and 75mph+ gusts which whip the elements around quite a lot, but they spring right back to "as new" position when the wind stops.

WB2WIK/6

[wb6bcn]

If you look at some of the pictures on thier home page you will see the elements responding to wind as well as ice buildup. As mentioned by WB2WIK, the elementrs spring back when conditions get back to normal.

thanks to all of you for the posts, I really appreciate it..