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I have a buddy that had a Avanti Moonraker 4 on about 15 foot of tower with no rotor. Most of the time he just left it pointing west, because that was where most of the skip was coming in those days, but if for some reason he wanted to talk local or something he would climb up the tower and turn it with a pipe wrench. It was really cold then too...

The antenna worked fantastic though. On most occasions he was a lot louder than me. He ran about 15 watts ssb and I was running anywhere from 30-500 watts through a groundplane about 24 feet off the ground. I'm located on top of a hill and he is in a hole between two hills. He can barely talk any local, but when skip rolls in he's hard to beat.

<blockquote data-quote="949Jake" data-source="post: 119002" data-attributes="member: 51">I have a buddy that had a Avanti Moonraker 4 on about 15 foot of tower with no rotor.&nbsp; Most of the time he just left it pointing west, because that was where most of the skip was coming in those days, but if for some reason he wanted to talk local or something he would climb up the tower and turn it with a pipe wrench.&nbsp; It was really cold then too...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The antenna worked fantastic though.&nbsp; On most occasions he was a lot louder than me.&nbsp; He ran about 15 watts ssb and I was running anywhere from 30-500 watts through a groundplane about 24 feet off the ground.&nbsp; I&#039;m located on top of a hill and he is in a hole between two hills.&nbsp; He can barely talk any local, but when skip rolls in he&#039;s hard to beat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="949Jake, post: 119002, member: 51"] I have a buddy that had a Avanti Moonraker 4 on about 15 foot of tower with no rotor. Most of the time he just left it pointing west, because that was where most of the skip was coming in those days, but if for some reason he wanted to talk local or something he would climb up the tower and turn it with a pipe wrench. It was really cold then too...:) The antenna worked fantastic though. On most occasions he was a lot louder than me. He ran about 15 watts ssb and I was running anywhere from 30-500 watts through a groundplane about 24 feet off the ground. I'm located on top of a hill and he is in a hole between two hills. He can barely talk any local, but when skip rolls in he's hard to beat. [/QUOTE]

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