Hex Parts

The antenna is made up of several parts:

Base - main plate which holds the spreaders and mast. It's also attached directly to the rotor.
Mast - center post which has brass bolts for feeding each bands elements, plus feedline between them
Spreaders - six fiberglass poles in a radial pattern that hold the wire elements
Wire - 20 pieces of wire, 4 for each band, or 2 driven and 2 reflective wires for each of 5 bands. The reflective and driven elements are in back-to-back W or M shapes
Rope - 5 rope pieces help hold the spreaders and wire in the hexagon shape.
Feedline - wire or coax used between each band's driven elements. There is also the usual coax feedline to the antenna from the shack.

 


Top view of the wire layout. This is looking down the top onto the mast, with driven elements on top (one side fed with the coax center, the other ground) while the bottom wires, the reflective element, are tied together in the center. The blue blocks represent attachment points on the spreaders (not shown, but they radiate from the center) where the wires bend.


These green lines show how the spreaders radiate from the center base plate to hold the wires:


The red lines below indicate the extra 5 ropes used to hold the spreaders in place: