What I discovered by modeling the MFJ -1846 Hex Beam (

I describe the status of erecting the new MFJ-1846 six band hex beam, plus I show G3TXQ's EZNEC+ model of the antenna and what it has to say about gain, beam pattern and SWR on each band, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10 meters. (Hint: good things!)
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