I don't know what's worse. The idiot that builds these things or the people that buy them.
Well, I have been working on one myself and I'm looking for investors thought you might be all in. It will cover every frequency from DC to Daylight no tuning what'ya think? This is my prototype.
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LOL. I am on the Ground Floor ! You all Walk all over me When i try to Talk Bo BoGo ahead and laugh when you see these in stacked arrays in your neighbor's yard you'll wish you had gotten in on the ground floor.
One big difference between Troy's antennas and that one Judge built tho...Judges crutch 10K actually worked! He won a Key-down contest with the thing...think he also had one made out of a old lawn chair too at one time.Here are a couple of creations that Troy has made in the past.
The last picture was Judge Beans antenna built from two 10 k antennas and a crutch.
73
Jeff
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Knowing that when you place a horizontal radiator directly on a metal roof (or too low to the ground) that it eliminates nearly all of the horizontal component, would have eliminated that design mistake too.updated version of the crutch 10K...the "flat-side" version...
That horizontal radiator is more like a capacity hat. It's still primarily a shortened vertical antenna with coil loading that's no different than my screwdriver antenna I use.Knowing that when you place a horizontal radiator directly on a metal roof (or too low to the ground) that it eliminates nearly all of the horizontal component, would have eliminated that design mistake too.