Carsten Groen's (OZ9AAR) personal place

End of 2022 I bought a UltraBeam VL2.3 3 element (5 element on 6M) Yagi antenna for 40 to 6 meters. Wimo in Germany is now the producer/owner of the UltraBeam brand.

The antenna went up on my new 15 meter folding tower in the spring on 2023 with the help of my good friend Lars Robert (a non-ham, but a friend that is alway there for me :) 

So far (winter 2023) the antenna is holding up just fine, and seems to be working really well on all the bands! 

Link to Wimo page with the antenna: https://www.wimo.com/de/ub640-vl2-3

I added 2 more elements on 6M (for a total of 5): https://www.wimo.com/de/ub-opt-6-3

The UltraBeam controller "talks" to my Yaesu FTDX101-MP transceiver, so band change of the antenna happens automatically without any user intervention. Nice and easy!

Rotor for the antenna is a Yaesu G-2800 with a ARCO controller, again from Wimo in Germany. The rotor is mounted on a GA-3000 absorber plate.

Rotor: https://www.wimo.com/de/yaesu-antenna-rotors-with-controller

Absorber plate: https://www.wimo.com/de/ga-3000

So far the system has held up to a few storms, some ice and snow, and seems to still perform as the day it was installed.

Below is a number of pictures of the antenna parts, the installation etc.

First a small testvideo of the stepper units of the antenna:

Next follows a number of pictures of the different parts and assembly of the antenna. All the hardware was clearly marked and of great quality.

Next is a number of pictures from the installation of the antenna on the tower