Finding a good PDL-2 is like finding a mint Browning Golden Eagle! It's even worse that I see daily *unused* good PDL's still in the air, and the people won't sell!
So I am looking for a small Beam with PDL's legendary performance, quad like performance, the PDL's were not a true quad, but something like a folded dipole with a "eggbeater" funky matching section.
I looked at the Maco Y quad, but are they just not a two element beam?
I like the looks of the Jo Gunn's smokin 2, but it IS priced high, and there seems to be some hype associated with this antenna?(true?)
There is the Signal Engineering's SuperHawk, seems to be real similar to the PDL,but the matching network is different.
Maco V quad has got some negative comments from the locals, and is the smallest of the antennas.
The Maco Shooting Star is too big for my setup(guided push up mast) and I would like a decent antenna that I can boast and gloat over on the radio....and be turned with a T.V. rotor.
I basically live 25 miles N.E. of a large city in this area, and there is allot of CB locals in that town, I live on the fringe and they can barely hear me using 40 watts and a 102" whip 20 feet in the air.
I'll be using a Texas Star 350 as the driver, so I'm not running super amounts of power.
So I am looking for a small Beam with PDL's legendary performance, quad like performance, the PDL's were not a true quad, but something like a folded dipole with a "eggbeater" funky matching section.
I looked at the Maco Y quad, but are they just not a two element beam?
I like the looks of the Jo Gunn's smokin 2, but it IS priced high, and there seems to be some hype associated with this antenna?(true?)
There is the Signal Engineering's SuperHawk, seems to be real similar to the PDL,but the matching network is different.
Maco V quad has got some negative comments from the locals, and is the smallest of the antennas.
The Maco Shooting Star is too big for my setup(guided push up mast) and I would like a decent antenna that I can boast and gloat over on the radio....and be turned with a T.V. rotor.
I basically live 25 miles N.E. of a large city in this area, and there is allot of CB locals in that town, I live on the fringe and they can barely hear me using 40 watts and a 102" whip 20 feet in the air.
I'll be using a Texas Star 350 as the driver, so I'm not running super amounts of power.