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I can appreciate your difficulty is getting radio reports for your antenna tests. It is a shame you don't have an FM station about 30-40 miles away who you can rely on for such testing then you could cut out the unreliability of the side bands and the uncertainty of what people are TXing on...

There are several advantages Marconi. Firsly, the world is full of 827's that have gone open circuit. If they could be used for another purpose which might have more gain then it may be worth having a crack at. Secondly, 827's are strong antennae and their integral strength is worth keeping...

From what I've read from your explanation of how the Gainmaster works Shockwave, if I decided to use the 827 as my lower section instead of using the coax then obviously I would need to isolate the base of the 827 so that it would be cut the correct length to represent the lower half of my...

Thanks for that. Out of the Country on business you say, sounds a real shady businessman or something.:D

Can you give me a link to that thread Marconi? See if this Bob bloke knows anything.

Thinking about turning my 827 into a dipole in the same arrangement of the Gainmaster but a few things are bothering me. Firstly after reading what Shockwave says about the choke not being a rf choke but actually determining the length of the lower half of the dipole I can see some problems in...

I agree with the Jazzsinger. Any situation where you change any of the parameters such as coax, pl plugs, where the coax is located along a building, its location in the environment and possible attenuation variables then you cannot possibly have a valid test. Just because the antennae are at...

Marconi, if I were testing one antenna against another I would be concious about having them parallel with one another. There will be attenuation between them without a doubt. The best way in my opinion is to mount each antenna on the same pole with no other antennae in attendance. That will...

That sounds like a excellent advert for Sirio and from you Shockwave seems to lack your usual degree of scrutiny. Its almost as if it was pre-meditated in some way. Personally speaking, I would want to wait a while longer and see others opinions on the matter.