Reviews Summary for Hexbeam: G3TXQ by MW0JZE Reviews: 20 Average rating: 5.0/5 MSRP: $£475.00 + Shipping Description: Description: A six band broadband Hexagonal Beam Antenna designed by Steve G3TXQ and manufactured in the UK by Anthony MW0JZE. Comparable performance to a full size two element yagi on bands 20M 6M with no tuner needed! Antenna is made in a pre-assembled form meaning a quite assembly time with no tuning involved, just assemble and mount to your mast. Full spec can be found on Anthonys web site wwwg3txq-hexbeam.com Price 475 GBP plus shipping Product is in production. More info: www.g3txq-hexbeam.com

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SV1AAK Rating: 5/5 Nov 5, 2011 16:57 Send this review to a friend Very pleased !!  Time owned: 0 to 3 months Great construction quality and easy to assemble. Very glad with performance . I have no previous experience with beam antennas, but comparing to my wire dipoles i saw great improvement in receiving and working some DX. I believe it is a very good combination of size and performance. Anthony was excellent in everyway to deal with. Many thanks, 73 Stelios M0TTB Rating: 5/5 Sep 22, 2011 07:10 Send this review to a friend Extremely impressed  Time owned: 0 to 3 months Very impressed! Purchased to upgrade from a TGM MQ26-SR minibeam. The hexbeam antenna is the very largest that I can accommodate at this qth. Reasons that I chose the MW0JZE manufactured, G3TXQ designed, broadband hex were that I generally know what other 'G' guys are using to break pile-ups, and many are using Ant's hex. These guys are consistently getting through to the dx, and putting out a strong signal. Most of these guys have come along the same route as myself, i.e. previously used TGM or MA5B minbeams. I'm also hearing guys around the world using hexbeams (VK, KH6, KH2, ZS), and their signals are generally strong, not quite up to the big Optibeams and SteppIR's but certainly up there with the 3 and even 4 element trapped multibanders. Another aspect that I liked was the honest approach from all those involved in the recent design of the broadband hex, notably G3TXQ himself, no outlandish claims and figures, just modest gain claims with NO MAGIC/MYSTERY that some spout with other designs. The low swr across entire bands was also a factor in purchasing, I can be at the bottom of 20m and then the top in seconds, with no tuning. My Palstar ATU is now redundant and out of line. Heavy rain has little to no effect on this antenna. The antenna itself is well packed, and easily assembled in less than an hour. Watching some of Ant's youtube hex construction videos on youtube was a good help, but certainly not compulsory. A couple of spanners is all you need, no cutting or soldering needed. I sprayed the spreaders arms in matt Olive, to blend into tall foliage. I made sure everything was electrically ok at about 10ft off the ground...swr no worse than 2.2:1 anywhere. Once raised to 45ft to the base, swr was a non-issue and meeting advertised specs. Goodbye ATU. Use on the bands is a dramatic improvement on what I have ever experienced before. The radiation pattern has taken a bit of getting used to after the almost dipole pattern of the TGM, which had a surprisingly well defined forward lobe, where-as the hex has a broader front lobe. Having said that, the f/b rejection is significant on the hex, and even the f/s rejection is good. 20/17/15m is where the hex wins by a large margin over the little TGM, there's significantly more radiating metal in the air for these bands with the hex. Interestingly, as I type, Ant is part of the 4W6A dxped to East Timor, who are naturally using his hex ... my first qso with them was with Ant on 15m, and I have now worked them on 20, 17, 15 and 10m. ZL1BJQ Rating: 5/5 Jul 29, 2011 16:53 Send this review to a friend Excellent  Time owned: more than 12 months I purchased just the wire elements for 10/15/20mtrs ready made to fit onto my tapered fibreglass poles in ZL. Elements are very well made, perfect length and surely instrumental in achieving an amazing almost perfect SWR. The Hexbeam performs very well indeed and can be truly a lightweight antenna. EI3GRB Rating: 5/5 Jul 17, 2011 07:45 Send this review to a friend Value for money aerial.  Time owned: 3 to 6 months As mentioned previously Ant is a real gentleman to deal with, very helpful and fast courteous reply to queries. The aerial arrived extremely well packaged. Assembly is any plug and play enthusiast's dream, Ant's attention to detail means no time is wasted. The videos on U-Tube show all you need. SWR on 10 mtrs. was higher than I liked and Ant immediately offered to cut a new element, however on further investigation I found it was most likely shack arrangement that was the cause of the mismatch. Performance, the aerial works as claimed by the specs, with the hex @ 45 feet & my 400w. I know I will not beat the guys with 1 Kw. and 6 elements at double the height, but never the less I manage to break most pile ups and usually in over 90% of the time if I can hear them I can work them. For a total outlay of about 1500 for aerial, secondhand mast, rotator and cables, I don't think with my budget I would have got better value else where. 73 Bob ON4CIT Rating: 5/5 Jun 2, 2011 02:48 Send this review to a friend Hex beam on FJ/OS1T dx expedition  Time owned: 3 to 6 months My hex beam perfomed very well during my dx expedition on Saint Barthelmy in may 2011 (FJ/OS1T) 12 days, and 7569 qso' made. I had Big signals every were around the world, so i was told on the dx-clusters I had no problem at all to copy all stations. A great advantage to my openion is the leight weight, easy assambly and disassambly, and small package for transportation to the dx expedition. I have to say that i use a expert liniar with approx 800 watts on all bands. No RF feedback or high SWR as a result. Because the antenna is a lightweight: Turning the antenna is simply by a small rope attached to one element. In one word , great antenna for home qth and specially for dx-expeditions. 9Q50ON Rating: 5/5 Jun 2, 2011 01:23 Send this review to a friend Great expedition antenna  Time owned: more than 12 months This is a great antenna for dx expeditions. you can pack this antenna in a small ski-bag 1,50 meter long. Airlines have no problem with this minimal "out of ize luggage". Weight is also ok. You have to notice them 2 days before and say you have sports eqiuipment or fiching gear with you. Then you have super antenna on your dx expedition! build and ready in 45 minutes. As you already could read, performance is good on all bands. We had absolutely no problem to make world wide contacts with our hex beam. IZ3LCI Rating: 5/5 Apr 18, 2011 09:06 Send this review to a friend Bravo!  Time owned: 6 to 12 months About power handling:"Full legal power" without problems, much more for sure ... I find it amazing! The antenna and its strengths in my opinion are:it's so quiet!, good gain and good F/B and F/S ratios, the small size and weight (small rotor and small tower = few bucks!! ... hihi!) Note that you have 6 bands, with performances near to 2 el full size, no traps, no devilry RF eat or melts if you go out with 500 or more 'watts;-) SWR perfect, the entire spectrum of all bands (1.5-1.6 maximum at the ends of the 20 meters ...) I am sooo happy, and if I'll change it in the future will be only for a Ultrabeam at least (above all for 30 and 40 mtrs bands) ... Has held a couple of storms this winter "bora wind" at 150/160 kmh without any problem. The price seems adequate for the construction and performance. One word ... Highly recommended in my opinion, if you want more performance you have to spend at least (but at least!) twice to increase the performance, in addition to greatly increase the weight and size, except maybe for Spiderbeam ... but it's bigger and not so strong in a base installation ... Just my 2 cents! Ah ... works very well since only 6 / 7 meters up! Tnx es 73s de IZ3LCI Angelo Venice IT G4MKP Rating: 5/5 Mar 30, 2011 03:32 Send this review to a friend Small Plot.....Big Performance  Time owned: 0 to 3 months I've tried every popular commercial mini-beam out there. Nothing comes close to this. My Hexbeam, manufactured for me by Anthony (MW0JZE) is at 31' at its highest point with a large tree only 3' away to the North East. Over the last few days alone I've bagged ZL,VK,FO,KH0,KH2, KH6, ZS.....the list goes on. My only Pacific QSOs pre Hexbeam were JA (rare) and KH6 (twice I think). VK/ZL/JA short path and long path now no problem. The key performance indicators for me are small footprint, excellent front to back and a low noise floor. Combined with the Elecraft K3 and the Expert 1K amp I can work them all. It's my main antenna this year for contesting. CT1KCL Rating: 5/5 Jan 20, 2011 12:48 Send this review to a friend great beam and 6 bands  Time owned: 0 to 3 months After a life time of verticals I decided to go for the hex beam. The kit comes complete and everything fits with no problem whatsoever. The only problem I had with the 32m mm.only stub. It is hard to fit on most rotors. I solved it by using my own stub that goes in the center 48 mm/ 50 mm. SWR spot on I can sell my tuner.6 bands for a reasonable price. I work at 9 meters up only. PD0RK Rating: 5/5 Dec 4, 2010 11:22 Send this review to a friend It's good. I mean good.  Time owned: 0 to 3 months I was looking for a rotatable multiband antenna. It should have 20M and 10M at least. So I ended up having to choose between a 2 or 3 element tri-band Yagi or the Hexbeam. I chose for the Hex because it is a 6 bander, has 2 full-size elements for each band(no traps) and has limited weight for its capabilities. Build quality is very good. Heavy duty fibre-glass spreaders, stainless steel and aluminium parts. It's really easy to put the Hex together. A manual is included, which helps. I have the Hex installed on my somewhat limited antenna pole of 12,5 meter in height. I measured SWR's on 20M of 1:1,5. On the other bands it was about 1:2,5 to 3. I will have to trim the antenna to get that better. My license (Novice) allows me to work on 20M and 10M. 10M were down so far. 20M however showed some good DX propagation during the time I've had the Hex up in the air. And WOW, does it work?! Yes. Compared to my inverted-V, signals are so much stronger, 3-4 S points and more. I can work the real DX stuff now: ZS's, ZL's, VK's, W's, N's, YB's, BX's and HK's to name a few. Reports are good and more important: I can work what I can hear. I get about the same reports that other Ham's get who work with 3 element tri-banders. So, if you're looking for a HF muli-band antenna, 20M-10M + 6M, be wise and consider this Hexbeam. Anthony does a fine job in pre-assembling his Hexbeam. It's built to last!

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