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Success! Many contacts to CA, pacific NW and everywhere in between. F/B seems good. Noticed when I got in the car running the sirio 5000 the noise level increased substantially as it should being vertical. Gain seems substantial as most stations were running considerably more power than I was. Great reports and now I need to get that thing up about 20+ feet. Looking at designing a pole that will slide into the hole in the trailer hitch of the truck stabilized with a couple of poles to the bed of the truck. It can be windy up there and don't want it falling over. I'm worried that the truck cap will screw with the antenna as it's aluminum. So simple to put up it's ridiculous. About 1 minute to assemble and another few seconds to raise and connect the coax. Gotta get it at least 5/8 wavelength high. I meant to say the design except for the frame I got off the net from somewhere. Can't remember. The frame idea I came up with myself. Needed to be portable, quick and simple.

<blockquote data-quote="hobie102" data-source="post: 502209" data-attributes="member: 40450"><p>Success! Many contacts to CA, pacific NW and everywhere in between. F/B seems good. Noticed when I got in the car running the sirio 5000 the noise level increased substantially as it should being vertical. Gain seems substantial as most stations were running considerably more power than I was. Great reports and now I need to get that thing up about 20+ feet. Looking at designing a pole that will slide into the hole in the trailer hitch of the truck stabilized with a couple of poles to the bed of the truck. It can be windy up there and don&#039;t want it falling over. I&#039;m worried that the truck cap will screw with the antenna as it&#039;s aluminum. So simple to put up it&#039;s ridiculous. About 1 minute to assemble and another few seconds to raise and connect the coax. Gotta get it at least 5/8 wavelength high. I meant to say the design except for the frame I got off the net from somewhere. Can&#039;t remember. The frame idea I came up with myself. Needed to be portable, quick and simple.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="hobie102, post: 502209, member: 40450"] Success! Many contacts to CA, pacific NW and everywhere in between. F/B seems good. Noticed when I got in the car running the sirio 5000 the noise level increased substantially as it should being vertical. Gain seems substantial as most stations were running considerably more power than I was. Great reports and now I need to get that thing up about 20+ feet. Looking at designing a pole that will slide into the hole in the trailer hitch of the truck stabilized with a couple of poles to the bed of the truck. It can be windy up there and don't want it falling over. I'm worried that the truck cap will screw with the antenna as it's aluminum. So simple to put up it's ridiculous. About 1 minute to assemble and another few seconds to raise and connect the coax. Gotta get it at least 5/8 wavelength high. I meant to say the design except for the frame I got off the net from somewhere. Can't remember. The frame idea I came up with myself. Needed to be portable, quick and simple. [/QUOTE]

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