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I had a guy 27 miles from me as the crow flies do the very same swap out and I saw no difference in his signal strength he went back to the Shockwave for the build quality and strength but both are very good antennas performance wise.

Check out the Bird Cage antenna built by Dave Made it’s a full wave vertical built like a tank. Also Mr. Coily and Shockwave are excellent preforming antennas built very strong.

I Have them both and don’t think you could wrong with either in any real aspect other then I think the Lincoln maybe more durable over its lifetime. But both are excellent performers

Being 10’ off the ground Is low but also what are your surroundings like if you are in a low area and surrounded by hills geographically you may wanna go with the A99 the high radiation take off angle will work for your advantage get you up and over sooner.

Stargun antenna mounts were very good have one that’s 15 years old and still holding up well. Some people of their single coil antennas worked very well too but there was a lot of questionable stuff made folks bought into.

If your going to stay in the 50 to 150 Watt power range Check out the Sirio Gain Master it will give you the band spread width you want I went from the IMAX to the Gain a Master and find it not to suffer as much from atmospheric and man made noise the IMAX did very low noise floor I’m in the mid...

Well said I love mine have 3 great way to get that first 100 watts

Tecsun PL660 is an Excellent little receiver I have 4 will never give them up. Get fantastic results with just the internal antenna and even better results with a handmade wire antenna 40’ long out of speaker alligator clipped to the PL660’s antenna. You will be more the happy with the performance

The problem I had with mine bumping the Swr protection on SSB when power turned up past 40 watts was grounding issues within the radio. Sent it to the recommended shop by Stryker Key radio repair and they went over all the internal grounds they say and it did fix the problem I can run the radio...

I’ve been running a Xforce TNT 350 with my 955 getting a little over 325 Watts I set the radio and amp together at a 50 watt dead key and let it swing from there seems like I get that 50 watt dead key out of the combo with a 3.50 watt dead key out of the radio. It’s been a great trouble free...

Get a Maco V5000 best bang for the buck. Ain’t no magical antenna some maybe built better but 5/8ths wave do what a 5/8ths wave does. If you live someplace where you have extreme weather then I’d go with a Zero 5 a Mr Coily or one of the other tank built antennas but all those 5/8ths waves will...

Great tech I just want him to fix my radios right not go on a date so I don’t care about his people skills but the guy knows what he’s doing. Nothing magical just good thorough work do that I pay him no more needs to be said.

Sell them as is they are an expensive repair you won’t get your money back if they at least power up you will get the same return as if you spent the money for a rehab most guys 5at buy them now are folks that do their own work on them and cover them no matter what condition of operation as long...

Do you see any major forward gain difference between the beam and the V4000.

Quad is a great choose dual polarity much improved gain over the A99 I’ve used them and enjoyed the performance even over my V5000 I had 80’ away. Had mine up 58’ to the boom and could consistently talk tho guys 140 miles plus as th3 crow fly. Also you be suprised of how many folks just talk on...

They all use cheap switches and cords now

How are you isolating your antenna from the mast ?

A little confusion slipped in about the stacking. There are guys that do stack one over the other but those are just single polarity antennas stacked horizontally over each other. Not dual polarized antennas. You see a lot of guys that do contesting doing it on the amature bands. There's a guy...

Those Taylor's .64 would kick the Hygain Penatrators around all day they were he best. You have the killer set up listed

Refine your antenna system hard mount the antenna if you can do some bonding get your radio properly tuned if it's not then after that if you still want more performance try a Xforce TNT 350 works great with my 955 in the mobile and My 955 as my bedroom radio.