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Well,yeah. I thought TOA is important. That's my goal with this antenna. Get it to radiate as low as it can go.
Their claim about the FS99 is that their product turns the A99 into a top loaded antenna along with fine tuning on top. The Firestik FS99 has two double 19 ga. Wires wound on it and is 5' instead of 5'9". The advertizing says that the FS99 makes it a 5/8's wave(electrically)with the wound wires on it. I've been reading up on the importance of grounding the A99 and am considering doing so. I've already ordered a Firestik fire up and the Solarcon GPK-1 for it. Since I run a four watt radio with this I want to extract as much performance as I can. A upgrade to a quality low loss coax would help also.
I still want concrete evidence instead of speculation. As I've already said,I've been doing research on end fed antennas. If the FS99 doesn't meet my expectations then I can always put the original top section back on. I will find out soon with radio reports from the locals up to 30+ miles away.

<blockquote data-quote="Lil&amp;#039;Yeshua" data-source="post: 449585" data-attributes="member: 28438">Well,yeah. I thought TOA is important. That&#039;s my goal with this antenna. Get it to radiate as low as it can go. Their claim about the FS99 is that their product turns the A99 into a top loaded antenna along with fine tuning on top. The Firestik FS99 has two double 19 ga. Wires wound on it and is 5&#039; instead of 5&#039;9&quot;. The advertizing says that the FS99 makes it a 5/8&#039;s wave(electrically)with the wound wires on it. I&#039;ve been reading up on the importance of grounding the A99 and am&nbsp; considering doing so. I&#039;ve already ordered a Firestik fire up and the Solarcon GPK-1 for it. Since I run a four watt radio with this I want to extract as much performance as I can. A upgrade to a quality low loss coax would help also. I still want concrete evidence instead of speculation. As I&#039;ve already said,I&#039;ve been doing research on end fed antennas. If the FS99 doesn&#039;t meet my expectations then I can always put the original top section back on. I will find out soon with radio reports from the locals up to 30+ miles away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lil'Yeshua, post: 449585, member: 28438"] Well,yeah. I thought TOA is important. That's my goal with this antenna. Get it to radiate as low as it can go. Their claim about the FS99 is that their product turns the A99 into a top loaded antenna along with fine tuning on top. The Firestik FS99 has two double 19 ga. Wires wound on it and is 5' instead of 5'9". The advertizing says that the FS99 makes it a 5/8's wave(electrically)with the wound wires on it. I've been reading up on the importance of grounding the A99 and am considering doing so. I've already ordered a Firestik fire up and the Solarcon GPK-1 for it. Since I run a four watt radio with this I want to extract as much performance as I can. A upgrade to a quality low loss coax would help also. I still want concrete evidence instead of speculation. As I've already said,I've been doing research on end fed antennas. If the FS99 doesn't meet my expectations then I can always put the original top section back on. I will find out soon with radio reports from the locals up to 30+ miles away. [/QUOTE]

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