| Send us pictures of your Gizmotchy® or Maco® antenna! It doesn't have to be a monster beam; most of our sales are three and four element antennas and we would like to showcase some of our customers' antennas on this page. E-mail a picture & short description of your antenna set up to kay@gizmotchy.com |
| Gravy Train #976 in DX, CB radio operator since 1968. I've been using the Gizmotchy® beam since 1970. I consider it the world's best beam! John McQueen 3/27/2010 |
| The above six element Gizmotchy® antenna is owned by Barry. Barry says, I have had this baby up in the air since 1994 with no problems. I love this beam and I cannot think of a substitute. I call this baby my big leg girls. Barry is in Clarksville, Tennessee, the Smokie hills, and talks on channel six, the super bowl. Barry is known as the Golddigger and his main saying out there in DX land is, "There's gold in them hills" It sounds like Barry has found his gold in our antenna. We think the antenna still looks good after 12 years up in the air. |
| Here is a picture of my three element Gizmotchy® that I put up in November, 2005. It does great being mounted on the chimney with no troubles at all. We have had winds up to 75 MPH and it doesn't budge at all. It is turned by a heavy duty TV rotor. Making contacts 85 miles away with just the Browning and the Gizmotchy® with no trouble. Scott Patton Grumpy's communication Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| The above antenna belongs to Francis Dearth in Danville, IL. Francis put this antenna up on December 31, 2005. The beam is 48 feet above the ground and Francis is making direct contacts as far as 80 miles. |
| Tom- need to replace the front vertical elements(6th) due to a limb bending it up during the install, and we will finish fine tuning the vertical match when I go back up to replace the element(Still1.3:1) and the lift got stuck during install as well! The flat side let's me talk skip anytime and anywhere in an unbelievable way! The best ears I have ever had! This thing is a cannon! Will Cleveland in Ladysmith, Va. ( 557 the WORLD Famous Texas Rattlesnake) Love ya, WC P.S. The antenna is about 42 feet to the tip of the vertical elements! The old AR22 rotor turns the light thing with ease, Now we need to make a miniature version of one to put on my mobile, what do ya think? |
| This is what a Texas wind storm does to a tower. |
| How much stress will a Gizmotchy® Antenna withstand? Pictured above is Jim Blitch and his son Daniel from Georgia raising a 12 element Gizmotchy® Antenna. I will let you the reader make your own judgements about how much our antenna will withstand by looking at this picture. Daniel has grown up since this picture was taken and has a full ride football scholarship next year at Wake Forest College. The NFL is probably his next stop. |
| Here is a picture of Stan Coutant's, AA6SC, Gizmotchy® antenna taken in 1964. November 3, 2011: Thank you, Tom, for a great antenna design. I'm the guy whose dad was a machinist, and put together a four-element Gizmo for eleven meters back in 1967. Then he and I got our ham licenses, and we put the Gizmo in the overhead of the garage, and put up dipoles for forty and eighty meters. Then last year when we were hoping ten meters was coming back, my wife and I brought down the Gizmo and shortened it for 28 MHz. Then we stuck it up onto a fifteen-foot pole, and have been amazed with its performance. During the CQ WW DX Contest last weekend I worked a Russian, a Frenchman, an Italian, and a Belgian in quick succession. Today I was sitting on 28.390 MHz and called a guy. When we finished, seven more fellows called me, two or three having heard me mention the Gizmotchy, and wanting to say they had heard of it also, and we're using old CB antennae of their own. And before that string of contacts, I worked two stations located in the Caribbean. Suffice it to say it has been a great day, for which I thank you again. 73, Stan Coutant AA6SC Johnson Valley The Mojave Desert Southern California |
| Gizmotchy® the best and the match on the vertical and horizontal side is 1.1 on channel 19 with 75 ohm ca/tv coax. I talk all over the US and South America so its working. The antenna is so stout I see my Antron whipping around and the Gizmotchy® just wiggling. They definitely are made of the best aluminum. Anthony Daniels |
| This antenna is owned by James Boone aka Burning Bush, from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. James modified the beam from the 2nd director by making it 1" shorter all the way to the 4th director. It is turned by a Yaesu G-800SA rotor. James says he got his first Gizmotchy® back in the 80s and has been a believer ever since. James can be found on the Super Bowl Channel 6. |
| Tom, thanks for all the help on getting the antenna and the extra parts I ordered. I wanted to try stretching the boom and see if I could get some extra gain out of the antenna. This monster is sure doing a fantastic job. Seeing 3 s-unit increases over the ground plane which is a lot of gain! The side rejection on this baby is awesome! This beam will rival any of the moonraker 6's or the Lazer 400's at about half the weight or more. I really believe the 31.5 foot boom is the ticket for this antenna. Including some pictures, I think you will be pleased with the way it came out. Once again thanks, |
| David Brown, Tennessee - David should of been a photographer if he isn't . |
| Chuck's 6 element Gizmotchy from San Francisco. Not sure of the age of this antenna but Chuck says it's old. |
| Getting good reports on the performance. Freddy Bennett, Wilmer, AL |
| Here is Philadelphia's Stoney Lewis getting ready for a keydown with his Maco M103C. |
| Maco 5 Element Beam and Maco V5000 in Avisford, New South Wales Australia Well I finally got it all together. The overall height to the bottom of the beam is 56 ft. Starting from the top of the wind up tower I installed your V5000 with the radials removed. Next is the five element Maco beam. Under that is the base UHF antenna. Under that is the uhf tv antenna ( we are at least 40 miles as the crows fly from the tv,s HD transmitter and we are in a quite a deep valley hence the reason for the tv antenna being so high on the tower) I removed the radials on the the V5000 was 5, After removing the radials and retuning both antennas the SWR came down to 1-1 at 27-500Mhz. The final tune was done with the beam 21 ft. from the ground via a cherry picker. The reason for such high guy wires on the tower and short rotator pole is we suffer from very high winds 80 - 100 klm. per hour quite a few times a year. Thank you for all your help in the past Jeff Miller |
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| This nice looking set up comes from San Francisco's LightFoot. It is a Maco 4 Element with a Maco V5/8 mounted on top. Both antennas are about a year old and LightFoot tells us that he is pleased with the performance of the antennas and ease of installation. |
| This Gizmotchy® 3 Element is owned by 741 NE Oregon. Looks great up there and he tells us he's very pleased with it: "I must say this is by far the best beam I have ever bought. It works very well, have talked back East and got very good reports back from everyone I contacted". |
| Here we have an impressive set up from Dennis in Lancaster, South Carolina. Dennis is running a Maco M104C vertically at 109 feet and a Maco M105C flat at 68 feet. He installed these in November 2010... we think they look great up there! DX- 84 South Carolina |
| This great looking 4 element Gizmotchy is owned by Trevor in British Columbia, Canada. He reports satisfaction with the ease of installation and tuning and tells us he's loving the beam! This is our first picture of a Gizmotchy installed in Canada and we hope to add more to the gallery soon. |
This amazing pictures was sent in by Darin in Kentucky: I love my 3 element Gizmotchy's. I live in Eddyville,Ky. and talk all over the world on 10/11 meters. Thank you for a great product, Darin We're thrilled that you're enjoying it, Darin! |
| This impressive 7 element Gizmotchy is owned by Bryan in Osceola, TX. He has it on 48' of Rohn Tower and made special support braces for his beam. We think it looks great up there and he's giving us great reports on the performance. Bryan - Crazycooter, Bravo Sierra 2890 |
| This four element Gizmotchy is owned by Andy in Ohio. Andy reports: "Seems to work very well, have had a lot of big signal reports loud and proud. Actually had 1 guy tell me hes never heard anything like that come over his way from my area (strongest he ever heard) 30 over s9. pretty good antenna." Glad you're liking it, Andy! |