THE EAGLE DX
The Eagle is the smallest antenna in the GAP product line. Its
development was the result of your requests for a low profile, high
efficiency GAP antenna. The Eagle DX-VI weighs just 11 pounds and can be
installed almost anywhere -- at ground level, on a pole, on your roof or
atop a tower. It is essentially a set of vertical dipoles -- the optimum
singular DX antenna. No traps, coils or transformers are used to achieve
multiband operation in this antenna either. Why is that significant?
Traps are the "weak link in the chain" of a multiband antenna.
Critical to the design of the GAP Eagle was the requirement to permit
operation anywhere on all of its designed frequencies. The Eagle
provides full coverage with a VSWR less than 2:1 on 40m, 20m, 17m, 15m,
and 12m and approximately 500 KHz on 10m without readjusting. 10m
operation is further optimized with a supplied extender. Compare that
performance to any other low profile vertical. With the Eagle, as with
all GAP antennas, you will not need to buy a tuner. If a rare DX station
appears on 7.050, but, you normally work the SSB nets around 7.250, just
slide the VFO and key the rig!
If the band is wide open, you might work a LU6 with a coat hanger,
but when conditions are less than perfect you want the highest S meter
reading an antenna can provide. Efficiency is critical. The efficiency
of the GAP Eagle is without equal. It has no traps, transformers or
matching coils to rob transmitted or received power. For the highest S
meter, choose a GAP Eagle.
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