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Nothing earth shaking going on here. I've not been able to get back to the old 5/8 wave for any work to make it a worthwhile comparative to the Qv4k. If I'm given enough time soon I'll get to it. However, as a satisfactory aside I shared a little ratchet jawing session with a local friend who runs an Imax 2000. We are perhaps a 1/4 mile apart. Of course we were doing fine talking to each other. What was fun for me was a truck driver broke to ask us where we were and what we ran. In the past the other fellows Imax gave me a run for the money sometimes receiving what I couldn't adequately pull out, but from the hills southwest of us about 15 to 18 miles out as the driver drove away from us with his audio/signal moving up and down with the terrain I could hear and converse with the driver using my Qv4k when the other station could not. At the point that the other station said he was having trouble pulling the truck driver out and let the driver go I was having no trouble what so ever. I realize this distance is negligible to many, but understanding the nature of things here in the heart of the Ozarks makes this kind of mobile to base transmission significant. Nevertheless, the point for me here is the clear out performance of my Qv4k over the previously superior Imax 2k in this unplanned set of circumstances. BTW, both our antennas are at the same elevation above ground.

Fingers are crossed for more hopeful indications of this antennas superiority over previous types of omni-verticals I've used.

<blockquote data-quote="HomerBB" data-source="post: 229264" data-attributes="member: 8569">Nothing earth shaking going on here. I&#039;ve not been able to get back to the old 5/8 wave for any work to make it a worthwhile comparative to the Qv4k. If I&#039;m given enough time soon I&#039;ll get to it. However, as a satisfactory aside I shared a little ratchet jawing session with a local friend who runs an Imax 2000. We are perhaps a 1/4 mile apart. Of course we were doing fine talking to each other. What was fun for me was a truck driver broke to ask us where we were and what we ran. In the past the other fellows Imax gave me a run for the money sometimes receiving what I couldn&#039;t adequately pull out, but from the hills southwest of us about 15 to 18 miles out as the driver drove away from us with his audio/signal moving up and down with the terrain I could hear and converse with the driver using my Qv4k when the other station could not. At the point that the other station said he was having trouble pulling the truck driver out and let the driver go I was having no trouble what so ever. I realize this distance is negligible to many, but understanding the nature of things here in the heart of the Ozarks makes this kind of mobile to base transmission significant. Nevertheless, the point for me here is the clear out performance of my Qv4k over the previously superior Imax 2k in this unplanned set of circumstances. BTW, both our antennas are at the same elevation above ground.Fingers are crossed for more hopeful indications of this antennas superiority over previous types of omni-verticals I&#039;ve used.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HomerBB, post: 229264, member: 8569"] Nothing earth shaking going on here. I've not been able to get back to the old 5/8 wave for any work to make it a worthwhile comparative to the Qv4k. If I'm given enough time soon I'll get to it. However, as a satisfactory aside I shared a little ratchet jawing session with a local friend who runs an Imax 2000. We are perhaps a 1/4 mile apart. Of course we were doing fine talking to each other. What was fun for me was a truck driver broke to ask us where we were and what we ran. In the past the other fellows Imax gave me a run for the money sometimes receiving what I couldn't adequately pull out, but from the hills southwest of us about 15 to 18 miles out as the driver drove away from us with his audio/signal moving up and down with the terrain I could hear and converse with the driver using my Qv4k when the other station could not. At the point that the other station said he was having trouble pulling the truck driver out and let the driver go I was having no trouble what so ever. I realize this distance is negligible to many, but understanding the nature of things here in the heart of the Ozarks makes this kind of mobile to base transmission significant. Nevertheless, the point for me here is the clear out performance of my Qv4k over the previously superior Imax 2k in this unplanned set of circumstances. BTW, both our antennas are at the same elevation above ground. Fingers are crossed for more hopeful indications of this antennas superiority over previous types of omni-verticals I've used. [/QUOTE]

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