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    Coily Enforcer Downunder

    Coil Enforcer Thank's for a great product Dan and look forward to seeing pictures of those yagi Antenna's when you get them finished. 73's Murray
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    Coily Enforcer Downunder

    Coily Downunder Mr Clean, I usually listen on 27.475 lsb but also 38 lsb on the standard 40. Here in NZ we have our own band of 40 channels 26.330 to 26.770. SSB call channel is 35 26.720 lsb. The Coily is working just as Dan said it would and works great from the bottom of the NZ band to the...
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    Coily Enforcer Downunder

    I finally got my Mr Coily Enforcer Base Antenna up and was really pleased with the results.Antenna full height is just under 66 ft to the top of the antenna. It is replacing my Shakespear 21ft 5/8 NBS 2010 which is being moved down to our beach house. Big problem with the Shakespear as with...
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    need some help with a base ant

    Base Antenna Thomas, with most of the verticals you don't need to go to the expence of a tower, usually a twenty foot length of 1 1/2" galvanized steel water pipe is enough to give a reasonable clearance above other structures. Simple brackets can be made out of stainless steel and use U bolts...
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    need some help with a base ant

    Base Antenna Thomas a simple A99 or better still an Imax with no G/P kit might best suit your needs. From memory the Maco has groundplanes on it which may upset the neighbours. Murray
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    need some help with a base ant

    Base Antenna Thomas, you might want to look at coily's website on www.mrcoily.com , his Enforcer base might be just what your looking for. I have just purchased one and are waiting for it to arrive, will let you know how it performs when I get it up. How did you get on with the 2950dx did...
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    antron 99 vs shakespear big stick

    Antennas 351, I also live in a valley, surrounding hills are about 50 ft higher than the top of my antenna on one side the top of the hills is about 100yards away and on the other side about three hundred yards away there was no difference between tx and rx on either of the 5/8 antennas. We...
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    antron 99 vs shakespear big stick

    Antenna's 351 before you run out and buy an Imax do a bit of research on what tv channels are being used in your area , if there are channels being used between 50 and 60 mhz forget about the Imax, A99 or for that matter any of the fiberglass antenna's and go with the Maco V 5/8 or one of the...
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    antron 99 vs shakespear big stick

    Shakespear vs A99 Jim, I've only tested the three antenna's via ground wave so have no idea how much different the skip performance would be. on ground wave through quite mountainous terrain there was no difference between the NBS 2010 and the Imax 2K. Noise was about the same as the Imax...
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    antron 99 vs shakespear big stick

    Shakespear vs A99 RW, You hit the nail right on the head, at 10 dollars put it up and try it, hell I've worked europe from my QTH in New Zealand on an A99 when the band was open, put it up and use it, if you want something better later buy it then. The only problem I can see with the...
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    antron 99 vs shakespear big stick

    Shakespear vs A99 351, I think we need to know which model of the Shakespear Big Stick that you have as the lengths varied from about 16 ft to 21 ft. Mine was the 21ft 5/8 (nbs 2010) which is rated at 5kw, I can tell you that this antennais a great improvement on the A99 and performs as well...
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    small beam

    Antenna's Phil, I have found that the combination of a flatside beam and a vertical like the A99 or Imax is good, the vertical lets you hear everything around you and then you can just flick the switch to go flatside. Murray
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    small beam

    Mini Beams Stealman, have a look at Mosley's website, they have a 3 element yagi with short elements on a 10ft boom. Mosley products are a little expensive but are excellent quality. Try this link www.mosley-electronics.com Murray
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    Will I have problems with using an amplifier w/my Imax 2000

    Antenna's and amps Snake the Imax 2000 will be able to easily take the power of that KLV550 The Imax and the A99 are two very cost effective antenna's, simple to install the ground plane kit maybe of relatively little advantage but may help reduce TVI. Both of these antenna's have a bit of a...
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    Heil Hand mic to 8 pin Kenwood

    Heil mics RFOverlord sorry for the late reply. Like most of Heils products it is a good microphone. I have only tried it on ssb though, I have also converted a few mic's with both Heils HC4 &HC5 elements audio quality is excellent but you don't get the same punch that you get with a power mic...
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    Will I have problems with using an amplifier w/my Imax 2000

    KLV 550 Snake, I don't know what the power output of your Yaesu is but according to RM'S Website drive should be no more than 10 watts am and 20 watts SSB. I know that the amps that they rate 4 watts am are better with no more than 2.5 dead key. With that being the case the 550 is probably...
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    antron 99 vs shakespear big stick

    Shakespear Big Stick 351, I did extensive test with the A99, Imax 2000 and Shakespear NBS 2010 at distances up to 45miles. To sum it up the Imax and the Shakespear are equal in fact trying to pick the winner between these two was near impossible, the A99 was minus 2 s units on both transmit and...
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    Heil Hand mic to 8 pin Kenwood

    Heil Hand Mic I got the mic working and for any of you with the Heil hand mic's this is the wiring that worked on the 8 pin Kenwood, be aware that wiring sequence was changed a few times during the manufacture of these mic's. Yellow to pin 1 Red to pin 2 Shield to pin 7 Black to pin...
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    Midland 79-290

    Maximus, Thats a real bummer the version that you have must be an earlier production run of those radio's. Look's like you may need the golden screwdriver after all or maybe get a tech that knows what he's doing with those radio's to add the channels. Murray
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    Midland 79-290

    Just got the radio back from having the frequency slide done and everthing is working well, even had some good contacts down on the Kiwi band (40 channels 26.330 to 26.770) ssb call channel is 35 or 26.720. Murray