I have the 72 foot version of that sitting here. It will be up after my tree guy shows up to clear some branches. Damn snow has everyone running a bit off schedule.
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Antenna choices and opinions.
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That depends on a lot of things, height of surrounding area(Trees), How high will the antenna will be, station grounding, and a lot of other things.
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You don't even need the radio either, I have seen a video where you choke out a dissenting voice in the room without touching him.
Hmmmmmmm....
it seems I have seen this pic somewhere before.
Good ones get used more than once!Hmmmmmmm....
Maybe. If you could hang a doublet off the side of your tower or mast you could work quite a few bands.
KEWL!
Looks something like kopcicle is already working on...
And the wire from this box, is pretty (gosh darn) long - about 117ft.
An off the corner - view...
Hope this gives you some idea...
Here's a site to help you understand if not give you some insight as to using it or how it's made and works...
http://m0ukd.com/homebrew/baluns-and-ununs/91-magnetic-longwire-balun-unun/#comment-area
The above is simple balun wound as a unun...
OR else just keep the A99 configuration - sorry to see "old faithful" giving up on you. But in reality A99 or not - most antennas have a Finite life-span and the environment and conditions it's operated in - has an impact that can shorten this life-span to even fewer years of service life.
Looks something like kopcicle is already working on...
And the wire from this box, is pretty (gosh darn) long - about 117ft.
An off the corner - view...
Here's a site to help you understand if not give you some insight as to using it or how it's made and works...
http://m0ukd.com/homebrew/baluns-and-ununs/91-magnetic-longwire-balun-unun/#comment-area
The above is simple balun wound as a unun...
OR else just keep the A99 configuration - sorry to see "old faithful" giving up on you. But in reality A99 or not - most antennas have a Finite life-span and the environment and conditions it's operated in - has an impact that can shorten this life-span to even fewer years of service life.
I think the antenna was my noise problem. Now the match was 2.5 this morning when 20 out. Then the sun came up and it got warmer match went down to about 1.1 wind picked up and it got colder 2.5 on ch 40 and 2.9 on ch1. I think it is a goner.
First A99 I had, a buddy donated it to me. It was as old as I was I believe but it was fine. It suffered a horrible and painful death during an ice storm, poor A99.
* side note here - cutting down a 102” whip makes a great replacement for the end section*
I bought a new one when my son was about 10 maybe, he’s 21 now. It still looks good and still functions perfectly. But I want more, bigger, better... I want a six million dollar man antenna setup now.
I personally won’t be happy until I have about a 100ft tower and a small farm of antennas on top of it. Maybe then I could actually use my Yaesu 897.
* side note here - cutting down a 102” whip makes a great replacement for the end section*
I bought a new one when my son was about 10 maybe, he’s 21 now. It still looks good and still functions perfectly. But I want more, bigger, better... I want a six million dollar man antenna setup now.
I personally won’t be happy until I have about a 100ft tower and a small farm of antennas on top of it. Maybe then I could actually use my Yaesu 897.
My main problem is the way my property is a end fed can only point North. It will be a sloper. Living a few miles from lake ontario That may only get me Canada. And no place to drop coax for a center fed antenna.
I never hear anybody talk about the star duster aren't they good antenna's for 11 meter?