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Doc I agree with all you have posted in this post, I was a firm believer in the splatter stick that am IMAX 2000 would be, after reading pages and pages of reviews at EHAM and ROBB's posts about it I went and spent the money and had one shipped.

I did not tune it, I just assembled it, wrapped an RF choke and placed it at the feed point and then swept it with the analyzer.
10,11,12,15 meters were all useable with decent VSWR and bandwidth, 17 was so so but the FT1000 built in tuner had no problem tuning it.

So with the RF choke at the feed point I eliminatd the 1/4wl of coax from being part of the antenna system per say, in theory anyway.

That fiberglass fishing pole works and works well, for around $100, four bands no tuner required and 5th band with a antenna coupler, not bad price for the antenna. Some say they work 20 meters with it I have never tried.

<blockquote data-quote="wavrider" data-source="post: 299845" data-attributes="member: 9893">Doc I agree with all you have posted in this post, I was a firm believer in the splatter stick that am IMAX 2000 would be, after reading pages and pages of reviews at EHAM&nbsp; and ROBB&#039;s posts about it I went and spent the money and had one shipped.&nbsp;I did not tune it, I just assembled it, wrapped an RF choke and placed it at the feed point and then swept it with the analyzer.10,11,12,15 meters were all useable with decent VSWR and bandwidth, 17 was so so but the FT1000 built in tuner had no problem tuning it.So with the RF choke at the feed point I eliminatd the 1/4wl of coax from being part of the antenna system per say, in theory anyway.&nbsp;That fiberglass fishing pole works and works well, for around $100, four bands no tuner required and 5th band with a antenna coupler, not bad price for the antenna. Some say they work 20 meters with it I have never tried.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wavrider, post: 299845, member: 9893"] Doc I agree with all you have posted in this post, I was a firm believer in the splatter stick that am IMAX 2000 would be, after reading pages and pages of reviews at EHAM and ROBB's posts about it I went and spent the money and had one shipped. I did not tune it, I just assembled it, wrapped an RF choke and placed it at the feed point and then swept it with the analyzer. 10,11,12,15 meters were all useable with decent VSWR and bandwidth, 17 was so so but the FT1000 built in tuner had no problem tuning it. So with the RF choke at the feed point I eliminatd the 1/4wl of coax from being part of the antenna system per say, in theory anyway. That fiberglass fishing pole works and works well, for around $100, four bands no tuner required and 5th band with a antenna coupler, not bad price for the antenna. Some say they work 20 meters with it I have never tried. [/QUOTE]

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