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Nah man. 10&11 both. VHF I get but 11$10 are not quite as bad although it happens

Imagine you’re driving down the road in your local backwoods farmland. Radios on windows are down and you’re enjoying the drive. You are on blacktop highway and other than a fence beside the road it’s open and clear of obstructions. You hear a station so you get the idea you’ll hit him up. His...

Wouldn’t you in reality be building an ocfd to some degree then?

Man it’s an old archer .64. Fortunately there was no damage to the antenna itself.

I’m not saying it didn’t work. It actually did good on 15 and 20. 10 and 40 was not as good. But I’m comparing it to an ocfd and ground plane. Put it up man

When I set up my tower I didn’t want to dig it in the ground so I could move it if I wanted to. So I used a plastic 55gal drum and poured in 5 bags of quiccrete. It’s anchored to the eave of the house. So it’s essentially isolated from the ground. It’s 55’ of tower I think to the top of the...

Arkansas had a quickly growing link system. It was pretty slick. From two servers on opposite side of the state for redundancy to a zero channel to line of site auto switching beamed linked repeaters. Now that’s gone. The owners are out of pocket untold dollars and the users are going to...

Damn that’s some wire

I bought a silent keys shack and included was a hustler btv5 antenna. I tried it when I first got it and was not impressed. It’s been hanging around on the shed roof and I thought maybe I didn’t give it a fair shake. So I put it up again today. This time i thought I’d follow all the...

I was reading both those guys stuff today

Don’t take your eyes off the road. Except to read all the billboards, ads on trucks and cars. The flashing hwy road signs. Other than that don’t do it

I see he talks about a metal roof. Since my ground plane is stuck at the moment pointing at the ground on top of the tower, it has me thinking about things like lower is better. Hahaha. But seriously I have a peaked metal roof that with a small mast I could hit a wavelength easy enough. I...

So after all those posts, is it the best? I like mine but with all the good and not so good arguments made in this thread, I feel there was no consensus. Each his own.

Thanks Mike.

Two questions. Is there a ground mounted. 10/11 meter vertical? I have a btv5 that I can’t stand for various reasons. And 2, if there is, how’s it preform

I guess I never considered the difference between the radials below a ground plane and a ground radial system

based on how much ground radials are pounded into us i would have assumed that there would be a continuing gain to them. interesting thanks

If you took a ground plane such as a clr2 that has 3 ground radials and strung bare thin copper wire between them spaced out say every 5 inches,making a web what would that do? Would it increase preformance at all?

Storm got my ground plane. It’s not damaged it’s just lying over limp. Anyway, I’ve been thinking about fixing it. Then about replacing it. Then about just redoing everything antenna wise. So here’s my question. All things equal, some ground, same tip height on and on, all the same, is there...