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dammit, I was trying to find that link....

this is certainly what came to mind... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-FoHs94JY4

you're still a slacker ;)

I will see if I can't get him to send some pictures over the weekend. Basically it's 3 10" fiberglass sections(I'm fairly certain he picked them up at a hamfest). We trimmed the last one to just a tad longer than the IMAX. We cut the bracket and the low cladding off the imax and it allowed it...

impressive...the VK's are booming in...oh wait..it's Mark again

landlord patriotic? I just this morning finished tuning a 10M flagpole, works fairly well as a vertical. it's an imax that has been slid inside fiberglass poles and mounted to the corner of the house.

Height makes some difference, but not a tremendous amount given the fact I'm tucked at the foothills of the blue ridge mountains, My Imax is tuned for 10m with the base at about 85', I have a pulley system where I can drop that down and simply suspend this in the middle, from the tests I have...

I think everyone has their idea of "minimal" cost. I live in a heavily wooded area with no room to swing a beam, my options(without trimming trees and increasing cost are to go higher, or go longer. I have a mutiband antenna which is much longer, that would be at vitually the same height, with...

which pretty much reinforces my point, why dump more money into a setup that works. I'm on a budget, I know I can reach that far with parts I had in a wal-mart bag in the garage. I didn't even need to climb my tower to do it, and I can make another antenna for every band if needed and still get...

I don't recall saying that part, however I was communicating with 2 stations (VK6IR and VK6TQ) that were relatively close to each other(40 miles). One had a beam, one didn't, the operator with the beam wanted to see if I could be reached both long and short ways, in this case, my signal report...

They had quite the pile stacked up, I haven't attempted a split on the new radio, so I skipped that round.

I guess it's time to upgrade the antenna to extend my chat time a bit. Haven't even had an HF rig for 2 months, got bit by the DX bug and here I am with a conversation around the world, literally, talked to a fellow in Perth a few minutes ago, who got me on the"short side" and then swung his...

I have an S9 of tones on my end, nobody is going to make it over that here

a station is killing me on 28.455, so I'm out of that until he quiets down

We need to update the CDX roster so we all have a call sign to spot on 11m

post up when you do, I doubt I'll be able to get you from my location, but we'll try

Mark is calling ya...even if he said he was gonna hide...

yeah, I have an S6-7 of trash tones on my end

27.335 is just trashed with random tones on my end...ugh

well we know it'll go downhill quick as soon as you key up ;)