CB dedicated dipole?? Half or Full Wave?

[HomerBB]

You will enjoy using the A99 far more than the inverted V dipole.
I have made and used an extended zepp dipole with 1/4 wave homemade open wire tuning section. It worked fine, but was not as universally useful as a vertical antenna up higher.
Perhaps you should get the A99 and experiment with the wire dipole just for fun.

 

[w9cll]

So try and get the A99 at the least is what your saying, and put the tip at about 38'.. the feeepoint would be about 19'..

If your interest is local comms then yes use the A99

 

[fogdog]

I built a 1/2 Dipole and hung it in a tree 20 ft up. I used a 1.1 Balun. I had it set as horizontal, and then inverted V configuration. Local stations were very week in either position. I moved it all around including north south, and easy West, and it just wasn't worth a dang. Now I do know how to build antennas, and have built several antennas for differant bands with great success. But that Dipole just didn't cut it.
I got tired of white noise all day, so I took a chance on the Imax. Gigantic differance. My radio is working again, and my log book is filling up fast. The Imax may not be perfect, but I'm diggin it.

73

 

[Mudfoot]

It will be good for distance but lousy for local

Not terribly so. I ran an inverted V at 28 feet. I was happy with the performance as compared to my IMAX at 35'. It came in handy dealing with noise from time to time. I could still work a friend 35 crow miles. Thinking of putting another one up.

 

[wavrider]

We used to all use dipoles here, cut out a lot of the hash and trash and were more quiet than the fishing pole sticks.

Down side is if whoever you are talking to local is vertical polarized it makes for tough qso.

Get a couple pieces of 1/2" conduit and make a vertical dipole, works good and costs les than $10

 

[Alan Blackmon]

Mudfoot I am also considering a inverted V. I am in a HOA and have both my neighbor and my wife complaining about antennas. My homebuilt quarter wave vertical I took off my house and hid it in the trees. That took a lot of pressure off from the complaints of the wife and neighbor. I still have 11 meter Moxon up and they wish it would just fall down one day. Still the Moxon antenna is pretty nice at skip (even when using NO extra watts to shoot skip) so I ignore them.

What I discovered when moving the vertical off the house an into the trees was how much reduction of noise I had. The EFI and RFI from my house is considerable. So moving out from the house 30 feet really helped drop the noise level. With that I am going to keep my inverted v experiment away from the house.

 

[S&W357]

I've got a 1/2 wave dipole mounted horizontal...did have it once in an inverted V.

Seems to work as good/bad one way as the other. Fairly good for distance and DX but for local...meh.

 

[w9cll]

Seems to work as good/bad one way as the other. Fairly good for distance and DX but for local...meh.

Cross polarization does not play well for local comms.

 

[S&W357]

100% correct! I hung my first horizontal dipole in 1970. Not good then for local and not good now. One of the constants in life that doesn't change.

 

[Mudfoot]

100% correct! I hung my first horizontal dipole in 1970. Not good then for local and not good now. One of the constants in life that doesn't change.

Works good when your buddies are flat, too.

 

[Alan Blackmon]

I have played the "what if" game in my mind. So supposing we suddenly have no way of driving around in a vehicle for "whatever" reason I can see a lot of flat side antennas going up. They would be easier in a lot of ways. Then we would be all the same polarity and not worry about the mobile contacts. Just having fun in my mind. Doubt it will occur but it passed through my brain one afternoon.

 

[S&W357]

Did it pass through vertically or on the flat side ?

 

[357magnum]

Works both way's for me , But I prefer " Breaking on the Flat Side " and strutting in the Sunshine ! Isn't that the old Cb Ch 6 phrase ?

 

[w9cll]

Works both way's for me , But I prefer " Breaking on the Flat Side " and strutting in the Sunshine ! Isn't that the old Cb Ch 6 phrase ?

Wow I had to use google Translate for that...lol

 

[357magnum]

Come on W9 , it hasn't been that long since your 11 meter days !