G4ZU HF Beam as built by ZS1JHG

This antenna has excellent performance on the upper HF

bands ie 15m, 12m and 10m. It only acts as a dipole on
20m and 17m.
So if 20m is your main DX interest look at the Moxon
Beam.
Feed with 300 ohm twinfeed (windowline) and 4:1 balun.
Then a short length of 50 ohm coax to your transceiver.
An ATU is required and this also allows the beam to be
used on the WARC bands with good results.

The best multiband antenna I have built for 10m so far.

My antenna was built with straight Dural tubing ie no
tapering of the elements.
The Dural is heavy and strong and stood up well to the
High winds in winter but needs a very strong boom to
mast mount ( suggested : a cast mounting plate) even
for tapering elements if you live in a high wind area.
Photos show the element to boom mounts which need to
be insulated. The coax attached to the director and
reflector are stubs for 10m and 15m with matching coils.

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The drawing gives full details of construction and tuning of

the stubs (a GDO was used )

Photo of the elements completed and tuned

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Photo showing the element to boom mounting

Notice the wood doweling used to insulate the two halves

of the elements. Fibreglass rod would be better. The coax
stubs (50 ohm RG58c) were strapped to the element (after
tuning)with cable ties.
Hams make good use of their “Workmate” benches.
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The gain figures quoted are from Eznec. I built this

antenna before I found out how to model an antenna
and see if will work as claimed. (note poor gain on 20m)
Extensive examples and instruction on modelling
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Antennas is available from L B Cebik`s website
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Measurements taken of my G4ZU on the tower at 30 feet

Using an MFJ 259B Analyzer.
Feedline 300 ohm foam twinlead via 4:1 balun to 50 ohm
coax.

Freq SWR R X

14200 2.8 63 +60

18130 2.7 28 -34

21250 1.5 32 2

24950 1.5 80 0

28500 1.8 66 +31