wow I am amazed I use a cobweb from 73 antennas with 40,30,20,17,15,10 & I added 6 meters and works a treat I had a little fine tuning to do but I get amazing reports, so I am surprised he can't get 40 to work and I have it up at 7.5 meters at the moment, But I must say his hex beam with 40m looks amazing
A cobweb antenna is a folded dipole with far far less gain than a hexbeam which is a 2 element yagi.....no comparison in performance. Apples and Oranges. Adding 40 to a hexbeam is really beyond design limits and stresses the fiberglass arms making the antenna extremely week. First real storm and it will be destroyed for sure. This rotating dipole is best in class solution, none better to mate with a hexbeam.
@@hrhkenneth428 in C about 6 db of gain on the cobwebb and after comparing this over other antennas, based on receive and reports by other hams the performance of the cobwebb is fantastic I wouldn't wright of the CW have U used one ?
@@hrhkenneth428 Based on all the comparisons I have done I have found about 5-6 dB of gain on the cobweb even placing it on a rotator I have found some direction gain as well, I have compared this side-by-side with various antennas but i must i have never owned or tested a Hexbeam
