Can't remember but the 1 on eBay sold for a outrageously high price. Someone got caught up in a bidding fever. To each their own!
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Antenna Specialist StarDuster II M 800
- Thread starter whiteastro
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The one on E Bay that unlinked to was relisted a couple times, sold for $270 something plus shipping.
Now one was willing to go for the $400 plus he wanted in the first listing.
73
Jeff
Now one was willing to go for the $400 plus he wanted in the first listing.
73
Jeff
Yeah I seen where it was relisted because the first winner didn't come up with the cash. In my opinion it wasn't worth the second price either. Looks like it was just a dual purpose antenna to receive and broadcast on 11meter and just to receive FM radio broadcast stations. You would really have to be out in the Boondocks to need that one.
i'm a guest here but couldn't resist posting. i had a starduster in the 70's. i even took it to the mountains of new hampshire. i'm from massachusetts i had it put up on my house we were living in cuz i was a teenager. the ad describes it as a starduster2 i had a starduster without those coils, so it might have been the original starduster one. don't know. but it was on a 20 foot antenna mast with guy wires. the guy wires might have played into it but doubt it. because i used to take it down frequently to drive up to the mountains with. it said that it was 5 db gain. it also said that it was a 1/2 wave it measured 18 feet long i would talk skip without a amp all the time. i got a 1 to 1 match from channel 1 to 55. as far as fm goes it did pickup really well on fm because fm was a 4th harmonic frequency. actually a half wave is 4 harmonic to a 109 mhz so that is why it picked up well on fm. i could talk on that late at night 100 miles away without a problem. i put up one of those m400 sirio stardusters on my brothers house for him it turn out to be not good the radials were half the thickness of my old star duster and 45 to 50 mph winds first bent the top of the antenna then more just bent it up bad. quality was not on their list of things for that antenna build. my original starduster was so easy to put together all it was were 4 radials screwed into the middle piece and plastic spreaders for the bottom three radials and it could hold itself up horizontal without bending like the m400. that bent all over the place so badly that i put it on a four foot fence for help bottom line is i don't think i would spend the money on the m400 again not even sure that i would buy from that company again. i did see the original starduster go for 400 and change and a 45 dollar shipping charge. that is insane in a bad way. their crazy for that money you could put up a different companys beam. which i did when replacing my starduster. i put it up on the otherside of the house.
