Band Hopper IV - Four-band (20m,30m,40m,80m) portable dipole antenna system

I got my band hopper a few months ago, and have done many successful activations with it. The build quality is good, and it is nice and light weight. The SWR is good over all the bands. The only disadvantage is the size of the antenna once erected, it requires a large amount of space, which may not be available on certain summits. Other than that I've been very pleased

It’s simple, it works, and it’s light. With this great antenna there is one less thing you need to worry about organising for an activation.

Lost a couple of masts in a storm and decided to put up a temp aerial. After using this don't think I need to erect any others! Works well from my QTH and am enjoying good reports! Thank you Richard.

So my review is based on my purchasing experience,delivery, and usage of my SOTA Beam. The purchase was online,completely painfree. I received my package containing my dual band SOTA Beam,extra guy setup and the 30'mast in record delivery time,phenominal !!! The packaging was incredible,no damage to anything. Setup is easy and effortless,and the quality and craftsmanship is great. I was on vacation this past 4th of July week and set up Beam at the campsite and proceeded to make contacts to 10 countries and 6 of the 13 Colonies contacts. Again,I cannot say enough about the SOTA Beam other than i'm about to purchase another...just to have a spare !!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOLKS FOR A GREAT PRODUCT AL MANCHESTER

The 80->20 linked dipole is almost indestructible. Over the last 2 years I have use this antenna portable doing Sota and WWFF activation's, base camping at the beach and just about everywhere in between. It has been used and abused and not looked after, its fallen over, been stepped on, tripped over and dropped and its never failed me, until my last trip away when I broke the dipole center. Yes, I broke it, it was not anyone else fault but my own. So i emailed Richard to BUY yes BUY another center because lets face it after 2 years of abuse its warranty has run out HIHI and Richard offers to send me a replacement free with my next order. Cannot complain about that, I wanted the switched inductor kit anyway to make a L Match tuner so order made, free parts coming and I am back in business for another 2 years or more before i break it again.

Thanks Richard for excellent service and a great antenna to use with my Elecraft KX2 doing /P . I have, however made a couple of mods to it that I think are worthwhile.... The Bandhopper IV is now a 'V' as I have cut the dipole at the 60M point, and used the 'freebie' bits you sent to accomplish this. Beyond this, as I quite often operate in poor weather, I have changed all the connectors to Anderson Power Poles, which I think give a more satisfactory connection than the Croc Clips. Its always a pleasure doing business with you..., and I love my WSPR Lite and Power Conditioner too. Thank you !! 73 de John M0OBU .... http://m0obu.net

hi Richard, i am speechless with the level of dispatch-delivery fantastic work, i have been using the Bandhopper IV for a couple of days now with a yaesu 817 at 5 watts, my QTH is between London and Southend On Sea on the Essex coast, some of the contacts i have had are from Bulgaria,Germany and the best 1 me and friend of mine which he contacted was into South Africa. Many Thanks Richard for the hard work you have done putting these antenna's together hope to shop with you soon and 73's

I've recently started using this linked dipole. I use a SpiderPole fiberglass mast, and push the apex of the dipole up to about 30' high (9m roughly), then run each leg of the dipole down to the ground using the supplied aluminum pins (or any convenient thing if it's where the guy ropes end up down near the ground). So I've really only used this in an inverted V configuration, and it works very well for me. I'm using this with an Elecraft KX3, usually less than its full 15w power output - in most cases it's about 5 watts to conserve battery - I use this setup for portable operation, as my home is located in a neighbourhood with antenna (and other) restrictions. Luckily I'm only 10 minutes walk from a really desireable location in a local park on the beach of a beautiful lake - VE7JBT

Talk about easy, put up on a 6 metre pole plugged it in and first call out of the bag was london to cornwall on 80m

Great performance in a very light weight portable package! It fits great inside my backpack and deploys easily and quickly. A great companion for my KX3. I have enjoyed many QRP contacts around the USA and Canada and take it with me everywhere I go for portable Ops.