Since my HOA would never allow me to put up a tower for a good all-around Yagi for 40-10m I am thinking about a compromise and still getting kind like a directional antenna with some gain, but only for 6m and 10m bands since that would be the least intrusive installation on top of my patio cover and least resistance by the HOA.
I have drawn how it would look like on the patio roof in red.
A top view here
In order to keep the antenna on the smaller side I'm looking at either the WIMO 2850MOX 2850MOX or a very similar design promoted via ARRL, the DUO4 6-10 MOXON from MOMOBeam DUO4 6-10MOXON which does not have an additional 6m director like the 2850MOX.
Both are very similar in design for 10m as pure Moxon, while the WIMO has an additional director for 6m that should give it higher gain for 6m.
While the 10m are nearly same overall dimensions with 3.74x1.45 for WIMO and 3.7mx1.45 for the ARRL variant, the extra director makes the boom 0.35m longer. The turning radius, that will determine the height of the assembly above the patio roof, due to the roof intruding into the patio flat space and the patio roof in general being not as wide as the turning radius of the antenna is wide, is with 2.0 vs 2.04 meter negligible different.
The price is nearly the same, so it doesn't matter that much. A rotator will cost more than the antenna assembly. The question is just with what rotator can I get away with? I have seen there are different sizes and I would need to find out, what size can carry it, they are both around 9-11lbs.
Since it will need to sit on top of the patio roof, as close as possible to the roof top (to not "offend the HOA with a tower) I'm not sure about the real free space height above ground to determine antenna performance. In general, it will be roughly 20 feet above the real ground/surrounding lawn/yard but only a couple of feet above the patio roof.
Does anybody have experience with any of them?
I have drawn how it would look like on the patio roof in red.
A top view here
In order to keep the antenna on the smaller side I'm looking at either the WIMO 2850MOX 2850MOX or a very similar design promoted via ARRL, the DUO4 6-10 MOXON from MOMOBeam DUO4 6-10MOXON which does not have an additional 6m director like the 2850MOX.
Both are very similar in design for 10m as pure Moxon, while the WIMO has an additional director for 6m that should give it higher gain for 6m.
While the 10m are nearly same overall dimensions with 3.74x1.45 for WIMO and 3.7mx1.45 for the ARRL variant, the extra director makes the boom 0.35m longer. The turning radius, that will determine the height of the assembly above the patio roof, due to the roof intruding into the patio flat space and the patio roof in general being not as wide as the turning radius of the antenna is wide, is with 2.0 vs 2.04 meter negligible different.
The price is nearly the same, so it doesn't matter that much. A rotator will cost more than the antenna assembly. The question is just with what rotator can I get away with? I have seen there are different sizes and I would need to find out, what size can carry it, they are both around 9-11lbs.
Since it will need to sit on top of the patio roof, as close as possible to the roof top (to not "offend the HOA with a tower) I'm not sure about the real free space height above ground to determine antenna performance. In general, it will be roughly 20 feet above the real ground/surrounding lawn/yard but only a couple of feet above the patio roof.
Does anybody have experience with any of them?