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Butternut Antennas
Butternut antennas are now made by DX Engineering, continuing a decades-long tradition of setting new standards for quality Amateur Radio vertical antennas! Butternut's...
Butternut antennas are now made by DX Engineering, continuing a decades-long tradition of setting new standards for quality Amateur Radio vertical antennas! Butternut's trio of critically-acclaimed vertical antenna designs, including 2-band, 6-band, and 9-band models, provide excellent HF performance. DX Engineering now builds the best of Butternut's vertical antennas, plus add-on kits to bring added band coverage to your existing Butternut antenna. Legendary quality and performance will put Butternut antennas at the top of your DX Engineering order.
Butternut antennas are now made by DX Engineering, continuing a decades-long tradition of setting new standards for quality Amateur Radio vertical antennas! Butternut's trio of critically-acclaimed vertical antenna designs, including 2-band, 6-band, and 9-band models, provide excellent HF performance. DX Engineering now builds the best of Butternut's vertical antennas, plus add-on kits to bring added band coverage to your existing Butternut antenna. Legendary quality and performance will put Butternut antennas at the top of your DX Engineering order.
Butternut HF9V 9-Band Vertical Antennas
Butternut HF9V Vertical Antennas work nine popular bands--80 through 6 meters--with an extremely efficient vertical radiator that's only 26 ft. tall! The HF9V antennas are easy to erect and tune antennas that will last you for many years. An internationally acclaimed antenna design, Butternut HF9V antennas require a complete ground radial system. The antenna comes with a 1 1/8 in. base insulator and a 1 1/4 in. O.D. x 2 ft. mounting tube for direct placement into the earth. The preferred, "easiest-to-tune", high-performance installation is the ground mounted HF9V, which requires a bare minimum of 12 evenly spread, straight radial wires. Many more radials are better, with double the number of evenly spread radials achieving nearly double the efficiency and signal performance, an effect that tops out at about 60 ground radials. Each radial wire stapled onto the ground or run an inch or so below the soil surface, may be any length from 20 to 45 ft. Radial wires need to be up to 50 percent longer over sandy and rocky soil to maintain efficiency. Want to hear and work the stations that other operators seem to be working easily? Enjoy advanced operations on the HF bands with a high performance vertical antenna installation. Have more fun DXing with great signals on your Butternut HF9V 9-Band Vertical Antenna.
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Butternut Antenna Replacement Parts
Butternut Antenna Replacement Parts enable you to keep your Butternut antennas performing at their peak. They offer their capacitors, coaxial matches, coils, and many other parts. Whether used for maintenance or for repairs due to unfortunate damage, Butternut can provide the replacement antenna parts that you need. Butternut high performance antennas have been available for decades. Maintain your antenna with genuine Butternut replacement parts from DX Engineering!
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Butternut Mounting Post Sleeves
Butternut Mounting Post Sleeves slip over the mounting tube of Butternut vertical antennas. They may also be used as ground mounting sleeves. These high-quality aluminum sleeves have a 1.25 in. outside diameter, 0.058 in. wall thickness and have a slit at one end. A new stainless steel element clamp is also included. These sleeves are 2-ft. long, plus or minus 1/8 in. When you need a mounting post sleeve for your HF6V or HF9V, then DX Engineering is your source for quality Butternut parts.
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Butternut Ground Radial Kits
Butternut GRK Ground Radial Kits are pre-cut and pre-assembled radial kits for all Butternut verticals. They are made of 18 AWG, stranded copper wire, each 30 ft. in length. Their #8 ring terminals are first crimped and then soldered to the wire to ensure a quality connection. If you own a Butternut HF2V, HF6V, or HF9V antenna, this is the complete ground radial kit you need for your antenna. Order your Butternut GRK Ground Radial Kits from DX Engineering... today! NOTE: These radials are for attachment to Butternut verticals only. They are NOT for use on the DX Engineering RADP-3 Radial Plate, as their #8 ring terminals do not fit 1/4 inch hardware
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Butternut 6 Meter Kits
Butternut 6 meter kits include all of the hardware and instruction that you need to add 6 meter band coverage to your HF6V antenna.
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Butternut 160 Meter Add-On Kits
Butternut 160 Meter Add-On Kit BUT-TBR-160X is designed specifically for the Butternut HF9V, HF6V and HF2V HF Vertical models. It is a parallel tuned circuit that consists of a coil and four high voltage RF capacitors with custom mounting plates, brackets and clamps. This assembly is installed at the base of the BUTTERNUT® HF Vertical antennas to achieve operation on 160 meters. This new design by DX Engineering incorporates four larger capacitors mounted between two aluminum plates. These new capacitor plates act as heat sinks, to reduce frequency drift when the components heat up under RF power and environmental conditions. Recommended maximum 160M power is 1,000W PEP SSB, 500W CW, 150W Digital (FT8, FT4, RTTY, etc). IMPORTANT NOTES • Your Butternut vertical antenna must be properly tuned on all bands PRIOR to adding this 160 meter kit. A very good radial system is a requirement for reasonable performance on all bands, but especially on the 160 meter band. Due to the effect of the installed 160 meter kit, the other bands will need to be retuned and the original shunt coil will require significant adjustment. • SWR bandwidth on 160 meters is very narrow. When tuning the antenna with an analyzer connected to the antenna matching section coax, choose the EXACT frequency you desire. DO NOT use any antenna tuner to operate on an off-resonance frequency above 2:1 SWR. Use of an antenna tuner is not possible because this is a very high-Q antenna inductor and capacitor combination that will not tolerate overheating. • Prolonged tune-up at maximum power levels must be avoided. Exceeding these levels may cause damage to the antenna, amplifier or transceiver. The TBR-160X functions as an inductive reactance in series with the antenna feedpoint, loading the antenna structure to resonate in the 160 meter band. On the higher bands the TBR-160X produces decreasing values of capacitive reactance, raising the resonant frequency (by 300-400 kHz) on 80 & 40 meters. Above 7 MHz this detuning is negligible and the antenna can be adjusted on all bands to compensate, as needed. In general, the only compromise that one must accept for the sake of 160 meter operation is reduced SWR bandwidth on 80 meters and to a lesser extent, on 40 meters with the HF2V/6V/9V. The TBR-160X SWR bandwidth of 2:1 or less on 160 meters will depend to a large extent on the efficiency of the ground system used with the antenna; 10 kHz is a typical figure with a fair-to-good ground system and a relatively short antenna such as the HF6V/9V. With the longer HF2V, especially if top loading "umbrella" wires are used, SWR bandwidths of 15 to 35 kHz between 2:1 points are possible. Even if greater bandwidths are possible with poorer, higher loss ground systems, performance would suffer. The best possible ground systems should always be used with electrically short loaded antennas. Since the Butternut verticals are very short antennas for 160 meters, full-size antenna performance should not be expected. A critical component of this type of antenna system is a very good radial system; 30 to 60 or more radials of 45 to 65 feet each is a requirement. Even at best the bandwidth will be very narrow so when tuning for 160 meters, you will have to determine which frequency in the band you want to use.
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Butternut HF6V 6-Band Vertical Antennas
Butternut HF6V Vertical Antennas work six bands--80, 40, 30, 20, 15, and 10 meters--with an extremely efficient vertical radiator that's only 26 ft. tall! The HF6V antennas are easy to erect and tune antennas that will last you for many years. The antenna comes with a 1 1/8 in. base insulator and a 1 1/4 in. O.D. x 2 ft. mounting tube for direct placement into the earth or mounting into a standard steel TV mast. An internationally acclaimed antenna design, Butternut HF6V antennas require a complete ground radial system. The antenna comes with a 1 1/8 in. base insulator and a 1 1/4 in. O.D. x 2 ft. mounting tube for direct placement into the earth. Accessory kits for 17, 12 and 6 meters are available. The preferred, "easiest-to-tune", high-performance installation is the ground mounted HF6V, which requires a bare minimum of 12 evenly spread, straight radial wires. Many more radials are better, with double the number (24) of evenly spread radials achieving nearly double the efficiency and signal performance, an effect that tops out at about 60 ground radials. Each radial wire stapled onto the ground or run an inch or so below the soil surface, may be any length from 20 to 45 ft. Radial wires need to be up to 50 percent longer over sandy and rocky soil to maintain efficiency. Want to hear and work the stations that other operators seem to be working easily? Enjoy advanced operations on the HF bands with a high performance vertical antenna installation. Have more fun DXing with great signals on your Butternut HF6V Vertical Antenna.
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Butternut 17/12 Meter Kits
Are you tired of the same old bands? If so, 12 and 17 meter coverage can be added to your HF6V antenna with one of Butternut's 17/12 meter kits.
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Butternut 15 Meter Resonator Kits
Butternut 15 meter resonator kits are replacement kits for the Butternut HF6V and HF9V antennas.
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$153.99
Butternut HF2V 2-Band Vertical Antennas
Butternut HF2V Vertical Antennas will optimize your operations on 80 and 40 meters. The entire 32 ft. tall antenna is active on both bands, maximizing efficiency. Butternut HF2V antennas can be used with or without the TLK Top Loading Kit for added efficiency and resonance lower in the 80-meter band. The antenna comes with a 1 1/8 in. base insulator and a 1 1/4 in. O.D. x 2 ft. mounting tube for direct placement into the earth or mounting into a standard steel TV mast. The preferred, "easiest-to-tune", high-performance installation is the ground mounted HF2V, which requires a bare minimum of 12 evenly spread, straight radial wires. Many more is better, with double the radials (24) achieving nearly double the efficiency and signal performance, an effect that tops out at about 60 ground radials. Each radial wire stapled onto the ground or run an inch or so below the soil surface, may be any length from 20 to 45 ft. Radial wires need to be up to 50 percent longer over sandy and rocky soil to maintain efficiency. Want to hear and work the stations that the other operators seem to be working easily? Enjoy advanced operations on the low bands with a high performance vertical antenna installation. Get great DXing results with great signals using your new Butternut HF2V Vertical Antenna.
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Butternut Top Loading Kits
Butternut Top Loading Kits for HF2V vertical antennas increase operational efficiency, especially on the 80 meter band. Even though retuning of the antenna is required, the TLK is a great way to improve the performance of your Butternut antenna.
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$69.99