Ground Plane Contest

[BOOTY MONSTER]

Another setback-- radial mount snapped in two when I tripped over a radial wire while moving it. Off to Walmart for a replacement. Today is the day.

Now that is worth the wait. Cool.
I'll have to confer with BM to see whether he wants to change his vote.
Just might be a winner.

OH MAN!!!!!! THATS AWESOM LMFAO !!!


homer im sorry but this gets my vote now . now when someone gets pulled with a vehicle full of beer cans they will have evidence they wanted to copy an antenna whey seen on tha wabba wabba wabb .

we also know why he took so long to build the antenna , have to get and fabricate the parts . LOL

 

[mackmobile43]

Twisted some wire and bricks together on this 1/4 wave gp.

Talked all over the country on it with very good reports.

Used an old window squeegee handle for a vertical/gp separator.

Tied the gp's at what I guess to be 45degrees with string and bricks for anchors.

I don't drink so I can't match the vertical support of rick's, I suppose I could have done it with pepsi cans I'd just be a copy cat and we know how many gp copies there are out there already.

Mid band is at 27.245 and it's 1.5:1 at either end of 26.375 to 28.635

 

[RickC.]

Ha! Excelllent, Mack! You must have brought some serious heat to solder all that. McGiver style points for the squeegee handle!

And thanks, Booty-- it was a pain, but I was on a mission-- and just for the record, I'm not averse to a cool one now and then, but those were mostly from the Memorial Day shindig here. Providing the cans was a group effort and I didn't have too much trouble enlisting help. All in the name of Science, of course.


Rick

 

[mackmobile43]

Ha! Excelllent, Mack! You must have brought some serious heat to solder all that. McGiver style points for the squeegee handle!

And thanks, Booty-- it was a pain, but I was on a mission-- and just for the record, I'm not averse to a cool one now and then, but those were mostly from the Memorial Day shindig here. Providing the cans was a group effort and I didn't have too much trouble enlisting help. All in the name of Science, of course.


Rick

I wish I used my better solder but I said hey it's just going in the heap when I was done with it but I am well pleased with how it reacted and was not at all hard to tune.lol just played with the length of the vertical radiator.

105'' radiator and 108'' gp's

 

[HomerBB]

Maybe we need a poll?

 

[mackmobile43]

Maybe we need a poll?

The cantenna is a shoe in.

 

[RickC.]

Yeah, I think so. Otherwise we're all voting for each other!

What's interesting to me is how different each of them have been, yet they're all variations on a theme.

We have so far (correct me if I'm leaving anything out):

1. A 10K- ground mounted with elevated radials
2. A 1/4 wave PVC ground plane
3. A really cool chicken wire vertical
4. An impressive 5/8 wave
5. Beer cans and an ashtray
6. A 1/4 wave wire ground plane

I don't know how to do a poll here, so Homer run with it- just make sure we don't leave anybody out!


Rick

 

[loosecannon]

bravo guys!

very cool designs.

i have to give the beer cantenna a vote for originality.

just curious, can you fine tune the antenna by sipping from the top can?

LC

 

[RickC.]

bravo guys!


just curious, can you fine tune the antenna by sipping from the top can?

LC

No, that's an option available only with the super rejection/extended radial kit. $59.99.

 

[mackmobile43]

Your poll awaits.

 

[BOOTY MONSTER]

just curious, can you fine tune the antenna by sipping from the top can?

LC

i suspect sipping from the cans is why he kept having issues and having to put it back together .

its definately between the chicken wire and the beer cans for me .
this is serious business ,,,,, theres a million dollars at stake !!

 

[HomerBB]

i suspect sipping from the cans is why he kept having issues and having to put it back together .

its definately between the chicken wire and the beer cans for me .
this is serious business ,,,,, theres a million dollars at stake !!

:laugh:

 

[CQDX11.com]

Hi Antenna aficionados, am I too late to enter my Dual Co-phased DDRR's which are quarter wave verticals "but not as we know them, Jim" More here http://cqdx11.com/cb-radio-antennas-at-barracuda-base/

 

[AudioShockwav]

Bump From the Dead.

I got side tracked and don't remember how I got here, but this deserves a bump just for the ideas that went into the projects.

Shout out to the builders.

73
Jeff