After returning from Ham Radio 2013 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, I had made my mind up that I was going to replace my satellite antennas (standard Diamond yagis) that I first purchased for satellite use with X-Quads from Wimo which I order on the day I returned.
Sadly due to a delay it took about 3 weeks to receive them, however once they did arrive they turned out to be easy to put together and I had soon switched them with the old antennas. For now these are setup in RHCP however I do expect to build some sort of switching system to allow me to control it a bit better for LHCP too.
So far results have been good FO-29 has a lot less fading and SO-50 is a much better signal, I’m hoping this will improve more once I’ve built the switching systems for the HA8ET preamps which I picked up at Friedrichshafen.
In till then its minor tweaks like making sure they are better leveled on the boom 🙂
Hi ,
i was searching for Wimo X-Quad in google and found your pictures.
I purchased a pair of pre owned x-quad antennas and tested the 2m antenna yesterday. I mounted it on wooden beam that should have no influence.
But I am unhappy with the SWR of the antenna. I tried to tune by bending the first director as written in the user manual. My best results:
Horizontal
144: 1,2
145: 2,5
146: 3,5
Vertical
144: 4,0
145: 2,0
146: 3,0
Maybe you can tell me what is the SWR of your antenna?
Maybe you have experience and have some ideas what i can do ?
I hope you would like to help me.
vy 73 de DL6MI
Michael