Hustler Mobile HF for 11 meters.

[WECSOG]

I've used quite a few of the Hustler antennas. I've had most of the available configurations, as well as a few custom antennas using Hustler components. For example, I put a trunk lip mount on a car we had, put a 15M resonator directly on the mount (no mast) and a 48 inch (IIRC; might have been longer) whip out of the resonator. Then added a shunt capacitor at the base to tune it.
The end result was an antenna that looked like a 5/8 wave 2 Meter antenna, but worked great on 20 Meters!
That's right; 20M with a 15M resonator. I remember testing it on the highway at 50 watts and talking with a ham in California from Alabama.

 

[chris schaefer]

Has anybody here used the Hustler Mobile HF antenna system on 11 meters? I am getting a new truck, and the antenna mounting position is less than ideal. The antenna mounts lower on the truck so that any kind of coil would not be above the roof of the truck.

However the Hustler Mobile HF starts out with a 54 inch mast, and then the resonator. So it would be above the roof line.

Does anybody have any experience with these antennas? I have read some good reviews on them for the ham bands, but I have never read anything about them being used on 11 meters.

This isn't the truck I am getting, just a pic I dug up off the interwebs to show the antenna placement. The mirrors on these trucks have a rather large metal frame behind that fiberglass shell.

i am having the same prob. with 2017 cascadia. i have tryed 10 different ant. the only one that comes close is a procom double coil, and its tilted about 30 degress forward. about 1.6 swr on 1-40 but only have bands{ c,d,ande to chan.10} running a anytone 6666. in the prosess of mounting in the back on upper handle.

 

[Slowmover]

11-Meter AM:

PRO COMM
PC A50 02

Fits 2017+ New Model Cascadia

(7’) Skipshooter Antenna
S7-CLR

Run coax inside door wiring from cab. Turn out past removable panels and around to mount from front.

I ran this cophase about three years ago.
If I could hear them, they could hear me.

Run power from dedicated (+) at fuse box. Neg, same. Enter box from underneath.

 

[secret squirrel]

Been running the Hustler HQ 27 for years as my main antenna for the vehicle. It is the one with the small center loading coil, 55 inches tall. Its a lot lighter than the 102 inch whip, less stress on the mount- using a Firestik Adjustable Door Jam Mount. It is mounted at the drivers rear of the vehicle, easy to tune and pretty forgiving of the less than ideal mounting location.

 

[jr26]

I know this is an old but I was wondering if anyone tried an 10 meter resonator with a longer whip for 11 meters? I would like to try this on a 54" shaft.

 

[BJ radionut]

Mobile HF and SCB Models

• RM-11
  • Description:
    • 400 watts
    • 72" with mast
  • Approximate Bandwidth:
    • 250 kHz.
• RM-11S
  • • 1000 watts
    • 82" with mast
  • Approximate Bandwidth:
    • 500 kHz.
      

 

[VaHam]

Superb antenna. Get the high power version. It offers wider bandwidth too. In the 70's we called them the gas pipe and beer can antenna.

 

[jr26]

I like the thought of more Bandwidth but not sure of the bigger coil on a 54" shaft at hi way speeds, also I understand the smaller coil is more efficient.

 

[BC Coyote]

Not sure 500 KHz bandwidth is something to be proud of. I get 700 KHz bandwidth (SWR less than 1.7) on a 3 foot firestick ! And almost 1.5 MHz bandwidth on a 103 inch whip. This is on a Toyota SUV.

 

[BJ radionut]

The "Beer Can" load works fine on long mast...You think the 11m is big, I ran the 75m version w/spring (twice the size) No issue...No the smaller coils are not more efficient, the larger coils are. Hustler's are great antennas/still made in US...still have a bucket in the barn with all my loads and couple of masts...Just in case...

 

[jr26]

Hate to tell you but the new ones are now being made in Mexico I think my HQ27 is. I am just leery of a coil that big on a fender mount

 

[BJ radionut]

I always had ball-mount w/spring for the big loads...the shorter stems big loads work well...just not as well as the big load with long 54" stick...I wondered how long it would be before they swamped to South of border...Last HF loads I bought couple yrs ago still had made in USA on them...
I used the "skinny" loads for 10/11m they just don't like power (work well on smaller mounts)...I melted a few on 10m before I went with the big boy toys.

 

[jr26]

I bought a HQ27 in August of 23 it was made in Mexico, I later bought the hq27HD I think it was NOS USA. I may just stay with the HQ27HD It works fairly well, but not near as well antennas on my other vehicles or 102 whi. It is also a compromised location left front fender mount, Its only used when I carry my over the cab camper.

 

[M0GVZ]

Not sure 500 KHz bandwidth is something to be proud of. I get 700 KHz bandwidth (SWR less than 1.7) on a 3 foot firestick ! And almost 1.5 MHz bandwidth on a 103 inch whip. This is on a Toyota SUV.

A narrower bandwidth on a short antenna, anything below 1/4 wavelength, indicates a high Q which means more efficiency. The last thing you want on a short antenna is a wide bandwidth unless the radiating element is a large diameter. It basically means that the thing is acting like a dummy load with much of your power being turned to heat by the matching section.

 

[M0GVZ]

Hate to tell you but the new ones are now being made in Mexico I think my HQ27 is.

What difference does that make? Apple products were all made in China. Didn't mean they were inferior to ones made in the USA and people still queued up to spend $1000s on the latest iThing on launch day.