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Several years ago I made three 5/8 wave antennas for some of my locals. Nothing fancy, just a good low loss matching network that would not heat with RF. One used it with four 4-400A tubes on channel 6 regularly professing he was talking on his "Shockwave 5/8 wave groundplane". He got quite a bit of attention for that because few people believed he could be using a groundplane. They typically assumed the antenna must have been special without considering the only thing special was it could handle more power and it was being used. I find it less than coincidental that BM Technologies copied Jay's antenna and copied the name describing a 5/8 wave antenna he's probably heard on the air in DX more than a thousand times over the last few years.

[QUOTE="Shockwave, post: 508509, member: 10882"] Several years ago I made three 5/8 wave antennas for some of my locals. Nothing fancy, just a good low loss matching network that would not heat with RF. One used it with four 4-400A tubes on channel 6 regularly professing he was talking on his "Shockwave 5/8 wave groundplane". He got quite a bit of attention for that because few people believed he could be using a groundplane. They typically assumed the antenna must have been special without considering the only thing special was it could handle more power and it was being used. I find it less than coincidental that BM Technologies copied Jay's antenna and copied the name describing a 5/8 wave antenna he's probably heard on the air in DX more than a thousand times over the last few years. [/QUOTE]

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