Εδώ θα βρείτε διάφορα reports από πελάτες μας που δοκίμασαν την κεραία TAK-tenna.

Hello dr Steve!
 
I am very happy to express my compliments to you on this excellent hf antenna that exceeds greatly any personal expectations from an antenna of this size. I have already expressed my opinion publicly on http://www.eham.net/reviews/review/76320 where I highly recommend the antenna to anyone.
Here is my report as seen on eham.net:
 
I have had a lot of experience with portable and mobile antennas due to the fact that I consider myself a portable or pedestrian mobile type of ham. So I must admit that I hesitated to believe the other folks that were so excited about the TAK-tenna because I still believe in the laws of physics. It took me about 40 mins the 1st time to assemble the antenna and took it on my roof for testing. The design is smart and it had already given ideas for making one of my own for the 160m band if it was to be efficient.

I live in a house surrounded by huge buldings so things are a bit rough for me down there.
After that, I started testing my antenna against a 25m random wire with the CG-3000 coupler and an l/2 dipole ant for 40 and 20m first with 100w and my ic-7400 then with my ft-817 and not more than 5W.

Worst case scenario was that the TAK was 1s unit below the dipole on 40 and 20m bands. The random wire was equal or less both in rx and tx in all cases. The antenna tuned extremely easily with the internal tuner of the ic-7400 in all bands from 80m-10m except 30m. On 80m I didn't make any qso although I tried so I pressume the antenna is not efficient at all there. It also didn't tune on the 6m band.

Then I tested with the Z-100 tuner and the ft-817. The antenna tuned again easily at ALL bands from 80m-10m. Due to the fact that I can make tests after qrl I didn't have the time to test over the 20m band since muf is going down after noon.

I have had a number of qso's already in digital/voice/cw that assure me that the antenna works ufb in horizontal pol. Here is a response from Andre-f5ukl who was so kind to send me an audio report from my keying in a 20m QSO while I was qrp with abt 2.5W and the TAK-tenna is a the height of 3m (!!)over my roof level.

Here is the mail from Andre

From: f5ukl
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:09 AM
To: 'sv1eex'
Subject: RE: QSO


Bonjour Nik



Thanks again for your reply and QSO.


You'll find the sound of your keying in attachment part.
All my best 73 to you and family and I hope we'll meet again.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2009 to you and yours.
Andre



F5UKL
@ndre Bourguet
22 chemin de Lons
64230 Lescar
France

Then I took it a step beyond. I put the antenna on my g-250 yaesu rotor just to check if the 10 db gain is true if a station is on the H of the antenna. There was very little difference in listening to a station while turning the antenna leftwards or rightwards. But this could be due to the fact that I have solid concrete blocks close to the antenna because of nearby buildings.I tried to pick stations in the scale of 5-7 s units without QSB when the rotor was steady and then stations on the 9 s unit scale level. So my tests was inconclusive this time although on some stations in ssb mainly in the 20m band seem to be better in rx with a little help with the rotor but never dimmed more than 1s unit that is to say abt 6 db of course on the ic-7400 meter scaling. I believe I must check again in a more "open space" enviroment than in my qth.

To conclude I'd suggest 100% this antenna to anyone who wants a stealth primary antenna for qth with fb results or for portable operation. There is no other HF antenna that could be working on a height of 3m over the "ground" level with such results except a magnetic loop, according to my experience.
My compliments to the creator!

Due to the fact that I am very busy with my qrl and my post-graduate degree I really didn't have the chance to operate portable but I assure you that during the holiday time I will  try and test the antenna portable. I have already mni videos of previous tests of mine in www.youtube.com and I would be glad to send you more stuff like photos and videos via email.
 
I would also like to report that Mr Tsirtsibasis has always been a great salesman and hamradio operator that really valors his customers and as one, I would definately say that his services to hamradio in Greece is off the scale  so I believe that in the spirit of the above he would be a respected business associate that will promote your antennas in Greece.

 
I will be in touch with you Mr Steve.
 
Best 73 es happy holiday - best wishes for you and your family and Merry Christmas!

From: info@tak-tenna.com
To: SV1EEX@hotmail.com
CC: sv1ats@otenet.gr
Subject: TAK-tenna
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:00:21 -0700