Tennadyne T10
My T10, 60ft above ground level, 5ele / 6mtr beam at the top, just below the
rotator is a 3mtr long aluminium arm supporting my 160-10mtrs Carolina Windom
rotator is a 3mtr long aluminium arm supporting my 160-10mtrs Carolina Windom
I have purchased many antennas in the past, and home brewed them also, so I feel at ease making
comments on the T10. They come in a cardboard "box", so small that you find it difficult to
believe that it could contain an hf antenna!
Used to have a 4ele Gem Quad, now when that "baby" arrived at the house, I definitely knew what
it was.
All the tubing for the elements on the T10 fit into the next size up, so there is not enough room
for a spec of dust to hibernate in the package, be careful not to leave one section sleeved into
another by accident, because they fit like a hand in a glove.
There is a feeling that you don't require the supplied nuts and bolts to hold it all together, such is
the quality of the materials, but I made use of everything supplied.
It appears to be easy just to go ahead with construction without much reference to the instruction
manual, bet that if you try that route, you will get it wrong, so sit back and study the paperwork,
lay everything out on the ground if you can, before bolting any of it together.
The use of my smallest socket set proved to be invaluable in "screwing" the element sections
together, rather than using a screwdriver, and, I didn't overdo any of it.
Some of the boom bolts supplied were slightly shorter than they should have been, but an e-mail to
Tennadyne saw the correct bolts drop through my letterbox within 48hrs, not bad service for a
company based in Texas!!!
Altogether, it took me 8hrs to construct the antenna, that time included the fitting of a brand new
Prosistel rotator, plus one or two other small jobs whilst I had access to everything.
My thanks to Ron Stone of Vine Antenna Products in Wales, and to Chuck Brainard of Tennadyne
in Texas.
The antenna looked "big" on the ground, but has a very tidy compact look when it is up in the sky.
If you ever consider buying one of the Tennadyne range, you will no doubt ponder over which one
to get, go for the bigger one that you considered, believe me.
comments on the T10. They come in a cardboard "box", so small that you find it difficult to
believe that it could contain an hf antenna!
Used to have a 4ele Gem Quad, now when that "baby" arrived at the house, I definitely knew what
it was.
All the tubing for the elements on the T10 fit into the next size up, so there is not enough room
for a spec of dust to hibernate in the package, be careful not to leave one section sleeved into
another by accident, because they fit like a hand in a glove.
There is a feeling that you don't require the supplied nuts and bolts to hold it all together, such is
the quality of the materials, but I made use of everything supplied.
It appears to be easy just to go ahead with construction without much reference to the instruction
manual, bet that if you try that route, you will get it wrong, so sit back and study the paperwork,
lay everything out on the ground if you can, before bolting any of it together.
The use of my smallest socket set proved to be invaluable in "screwing" the element sections
together, rather than using a screwdriver, and, I didn't overdo any of it.
Some of the boom bolts supplied were slightly shorter than they should have been, but an e-mail to
Tennadyne saw the correct bolts drop through my letterbox within 48hrs, not bad service for a
company based in Texas!!!
Altogether, it took me 8hrs to construct the antenna, that time included the fitting of a brand new
Prosistel rotator, plus one or two other small jobs whilst I had access to everything.
My thanks to Ron Stone of Vine Antenna Products in Wales, and to Chuck Brainard of Tennadyne
in Texas.
The antenna looked "big" on the ground, but has a very tidy compact look when it is up in the sky.
If you ever consider buying one of the Tennadyne range, you will no doubt ponder over which one
to get, go for the bigger one that you considered, believe me.
I sat back in the shack and called "cq" on 17mtrs that evening, just to get a signal report and see
how the new antenna would perform.
First station to come back to me after one call was a ZL, followed by another ZL, worked four VK
stations after those, by which time the whole of Japan jumped on me!!!
Spend some minutes working the JA's etc, turned it towards Canada and the USA, logged in 137
stations before I was forced to go qrt by my xyl, choice of dinner or the shotgun, chose dinner, that
shotgun makes one hell of a mess!!!
Have since cracked some huge pile-ups with the T10, and have worked d/x using it on 40 and 6mtrs.
how the new antenna would perform.
First station to come back to me after one call was a ZL, followed by another ZL, worked four VK
stations after those, by which time the whole of Japan jumped on me!!!
Spend some minutes working the JA's etc, turned it towards Canada and the USA, logged in 137
stations before I was forced to go qrt by my xyl, choice of dinner or the shotgun, chose dinner, that
shotgun makes one hell of a mess!!!
Have since cracked some huge pile-ups with the T10, and have worked d/x using it on 40 and 6mtrs.
These antennas will be replaced by much bigger ones sometime in August 2003,
as my neighbours do tend to get bored with the same old hardware after a while
as my neighbours do tend to get bored with the same old hardware after a while
Now running a 4 element SteppIR
Now running a 4 element SteppIR