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Hy-Gain DX-88 vertical antenna The Hy-Gain DX-88 is a good multi-band vertical antenna for 80-10m including the WARC bands. Although it is a rather old design, it performs very well and has given me many good DX on all HF bands. The antenna consists of sveral resonant sections, which can be individually tuned for best SWR on each band. One exception is the 40 and 80 meter bands, which are somehow coupled to each other. As with many other antennas the bandwidth is rather small on 80 meters, nevertheless it is quite adequate for CW use. Note: This antenna is currently not functional after it has been disabled by a storm.
I have many pictures of the DX-88 in my picture gallery.


DX-88 R.I.P.

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Well, it happened again, the base element of my DX-88 vertical antenna broke again. This time, however, the antenna itself was rather innocent.

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DX-88 Overview

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The DX-88 is a very good vertical antenna by Hy-Gain, which covers the 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 meter bands. With an optional kit the DX-88 can also work on 160 meters. The antenna is self supporting and comes with stainless steel hardware making it quite robust in windy conditions. Like any other vertical antenna, the DX-88 performs best with a ground radial system.

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DX-88 Tuning

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By studying the graphs in the User Manual I have come to the following parameters, which are supposed to be good enough for CW work. Note that 80 and 40 meters can not be tuned independently, which is why the centre frequency on 80 meters is set to 3.6 MHz.

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DX-88 is up again

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I felt I should give the FT-817 a fair chance, so I have put the DX-88 up again. Of course, I have new tuning parameters and it seemed, that some of the parameters were not like they should have been.

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No Tests This Time...

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I am in Høm now for a few days of vacation. It's nice summer and the wheather forecast looks very good. I was considering to put up the DX-88 to have a quick DX run ;-)  Also, it would be rather nice to have the systematic SWR scan across all bands, which I didn not perform during Christmas.As usual, the support mast I used last time is lost and I couldn not find a new one... So, I guess, no DX this time :((

 
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