Butternut HF5B 5-Band Butterfly Beam Antenna
Five popular HF bands 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters in a rotatable, two element beam? No Lossy traps? YES! Butternut’s innovative HF5B offers exactly that! Especially designed for the amateur with limited space, it offers significant improvement over omni-directional antennas, with useful forward gain and good front-to-side and front-to-back rejection of QRM.
| Wingspan: | 12 ft. 6 in. (3.8 m) |
| Boom Length: | 6 ft. (1.8 m) |
| Turning Radius: | 6 ft. 11 in. (2.1 m) |
| Vertical Spreaders: | 6 ft. (1.8 m) |
| Shipping weight: | 22 lbs. (10 kg) |
| Feed Point Impedance: | Nominal 50 ohms. Includes RF connector for direct connection to any length feed line terminated in PL-259 |
| VSWR at Resonance: | 1.5:1 or less |
| Power rating: | 500 watts CW/1200 watts PEP SSB input to the final. |
| Wind loading: | 3 ft2 (.3 m2) |
| Unguyed Wind Survival: | 80 mph (129 kph) |
| Bandwidth for VSWR of 2:1 or less: | 10 m – 1.5 MHz 12 m – entire band 15 m – entire band 17 m – entire band 20 m – 200 kHz |
| Gain: | 3+ dBd 20 m, up to 5 dBd on all other bands except 17 m which acts as a rotary dipole |
| Front-to-back: | up to 20 dB |
| Front-to-side: | up to 30 dB |
| Minimum height above ground: | 30 ft. (9.1 m) |
Accepts up to a 1-1/2 in (38.1 mm) mast. Light enough to be turned with a TV rotator.
Price:$625.00
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