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No Cap Hat. Figured the larger dia. elements would reduce the size myself. The darn thing is a Frankenstein. Have wanted to take some pictures of it (bragging rights). Wanting to try a 102" whip with large spring for top element, but the current one is much longer. Would like to cut down on wind resistance. I can't figure out why it works being longer, but results running barefoot puts distance reached at approx. 25 miles with 4 watt output. Darn near to Victoria. 1.2/1 SWR, I'm happy.

We have a bad RF noise here. Two heavy trans lines at 130,000 run parallel on each side of us about 900~ 1200 feet away. One from Houston and another from Corpus to feed the many chem plants in area. When relative dew point is higher noise increases. Transformer feed to the house was replaced after Harvey with a smaller unit, which at time of install by VEC......to quote the power company........"We hope it's big enough supply to three houses, the barn and camper". Now it's a question weather the trans is burning out causing noise.

This Star Buster antenna doesn't rec. the noise. The receiver in the barn (about 60 feet away), running off of horz. beam picks it up really bad. It doesn't have the multiple grounding and the "controversial detuning sleeve" the vertical does. Have played with the gamma on the horz. beam till we were silly, and by then drunk enough just to leave it alone. Typically, a vert. will pick up the noise more than a horz. Have even done a voodoo ritual on it trying to relieve the static. All I can guess is the multiple grounding locations and the "sleeve" make a difference.

<blockquote data-quote="Redbeard U812" data-source="post: 640057" data-attributes="member: 52802">No Cap Hat. Figured the larger dia. elements would reduce the size myself. The darn thing is a Frankenstein. Have wanted to take some pictures of it (bragging rights). Wanting to try a 102&quot; whip with large spring for top element, but the current one is much longer. Would like to cut down on wind resistance. I can&#039;t figure out why it works being longer, but results running barefoot puts distance reached at approx. 25 miles with 4 watt output. Darn near to Victoria. 1.2/1 SWR, I&#039;m happy.We have a bad RF noise here. Two heavy trans lines at 130,000 run parallel on each side of us about 900~ 1200 feet away. One from Houston and another from Corpus to feed the many chem plants in area. When relative dew point is higher noise increases. Transformer feed to the house was replaced after Harvey with a smaller unit, which at time of install by VEC......to quote the power company........&quot;We hope it&#039;s big enough supply to three houses, the barn and camper&quot;. Now it&#039;s a question weather the trans is burning out causing noise.This Star Buster antenna doesn&#039;t rec. the noise. The receiver in the barn (about 60 feet away), running off of horz. beam picks it up really bad. It doesn&#039;t have the multiple grounding and the &quot;controversial detuning sleeve&quot; the vertical does. Have played with the gamma on the horz. beam till we were silly, and by then drunk enough just to leave it alone. Typically, a vert. will pick up the noise more than a horz. Have even done a voodoo ritual on it trying to relieve the static. All I can guess is the multiple grounding locations and the &quot;sleeve&quot; make a difference.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Redbeard U812, post: 640057, member: 52802"] No Cap Hat. Figured the larger dia. elements would reduce the size myself. The darn thing is a Frankenstein. Have wanted to take some pictures of it (bragging rights). Wanting to try a 102" whip with large spring for top element, but the current one is much longer. Would like to cut down on wind resistance. I can't figure out why it works being longer, but results running barefoot puts distance reached at approx. 25 miles with 4 watt output. Darn near to Victoria. 1.2/1 SWR, I'm happy. We have a bad RF noise here. Two heavy trans lines at 130,000 run parallel on each side of us about 900~ 1200 feet away. One from Houston and another from Corpus to feed the many chem plants in area. When relative dew point is higher noise increases. Transformer feed to the house was replaced after Harvey with a smaller unit, which at time of install by VEC......to quote the power company........"We hope it's big enough supply to three houses, the barn and camper". Now it's a question weather the trans is burning out causing noise. This Star Buster antenna doesn't rec. the noise. The receiver in the barn (about 60 feet away), running off of horz. beam picks it up really bad. It doesn't have the multiple grounding and the "controversial detuning sleeve" the vertical does. Have played with the gamma on the horz. beam till we were silly, and by then drunk enough just to leave it alone. Typically, a vert. will pick up the noise more than a horz. Have even done a voodoo ritual on it trying to relieve the static. All I can guess is the multiple grounding locations and the "sleeve" make a difference. [/QUOTE]

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