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HGP-500

After installing the new HGP-500 antenna at my QTH last month and doing some primary testing against my reference A99 at 38' to the bottom of the A99
The new HGP-500 has stopped my desire to compare any more base antennas! These are observations that jump out at me so far. The A99 seems to have more gain or receive an sometime that works for ya and sometimes it works against ya, but its different, with less gain the HGP-500 is quieter and I hear weak signals better to my ear. Last week there was a bad wind storm at my QTH an I was our of town, the HGP-500 at 30' to the bottom made it through it with only slight damage to guide lines which I had to retighten the lines, (2) HAM wire antennas did not weather as well. That answered my question if my antenna would hold up under high winds. All this stuff is seat of the pants observations but have been doing this stuff longer than I can remember. I now know why the HGP-500 was so revered in its day by CBer back in the 70s. Its a great antenna to listen to, and has stoped my quest for a better base CB antenna!...........Oldtimer

<blockquote data-quote="walterb" data-source="post: 321765" data-attributes="member: 6966">HGP-500After installing the new HGP-500 antenna at my QTH last month and doing some primary testing against my reference A99 at 38&#039; to the bottom of the A99The new HGP-500 has stopped&nbsp; my desire to compare any more base antennas! These are observations that jump out at me so far. The A99 seems to have more gain or receive an sometime that works for ya and sometimes it works against ya, but its different, with less gain the HGP-500 is quieter and I hear weak signals better to my ear. Last week there was a bad wind storm at my QTH an I was our of town, the HGP-500 at 30&#039; to the bottom made it through it with only slight damage to guide lines which I had to retighten the lines, (2) HAM wire antennas did not weather as well. That answered my question if my antenna would hold up under high winds. All this stuff is seat of the pants observations but have been doing this stuff longer than I can remember. I now know why the HGP-500 was so revered in its day by CBer back in the 70s. Its a great antenna to listen to, and has stoped my quest for a better base CB antenna!...........Oldtimer<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":thumbup:" title="Thumbs Up&nbsp; &nbsp; :thumbup:"&nbsp; data-smilie="27"data-shortname=":thumbup:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="walterb, post: 321765, member: 6966"] [b]HGP-500[/b] After installing the new HGP-500 antenna at my QTH last month and doing some primary testing against my reference A99 at 38' to the bottom of the A99 The new HGP-500 has stopped my desire to compare any more base antennas! These are observations that jump out at me so far. The A99 seems to have more gain or receive an sometime that works for ya and sometimes it works against ya, but its different, with less gain the HGP-500 is quieter and I hear weak signals better to my ear. Last week there was a bad wind storm at my QTH an I was our of town, the HGP-500 at 30' to the bottom made it through it with only slight damage to guide lines which I had to retighten the lines, (2) HAM wire antennas did not weather as well. That answered my question if my antenna would hold up under high winds. All this stuff is seat of the pants observations but have been doing this stuff longer than I can remember. I now know why the HGP-500 was so revered in its day by CBer back in the 70s. Its a great antenna to listen to, and has stoped my quest for a better base CB antenna!...........Oldtimer:thumbup: [/QUOTE]

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