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I was going to buy some more aluminium for some radials but notice many people selling aluminium tubing for antennas as 6063 T6, I bought EN 6060 Aluminium by mistake I dont know if it makes a lot of difference in the grade of aluminium used for antennas maybe 6063 has better conductivity ?. I...

Thx for that info, in that case I will add 3 9 foot wires to it, it acts as a receiving antenna for my mfj 1025 noise cancelling unit, but I use it on 10 if my antron is down for any reason, like there a bad thunderstorm on its way. its qrp in the loft 10 watts max but on a plus note being...

Hi I have a 10m mobile whip in the loft with 4 3 ft steel rods as ground radials, they are on the loft boards holding the antenna up, but I want to add 4 additional 9 foot wires, stranded copper 5 amps rated and insulated, my question is how many watts would be safe before the insulation started...

Thanks for that reply Captain Kilowatt, I see your point, and my tuner is located 100ft away, on a plus note I worked a station today inter g around 150 miles away 5-5 signal which was better than I expected running 20 watts, I don't want to put my wire back up untill I move house so for the...

Well spotted :)

Heres a quick question, if you have a screwdriver antenna, the whip is maybe 6 or 7 ft the rest is the tunable coil, and I have seen them make contacts on 40m, now Im certain they are garbage on 40m but my 9 ft tank whip with 9ft radials, tunes on 40, so im thinking it must work as good as a...

Ok guys this amp is classed as wideband 3 to 30mhz and it is listed as class AB, I have no idea if it is class AB or not, I have used this on 10m at 50w pep using a low drive from my ft950, and intend to run 150 to 200w when I pass my full licence, will this be dirty on bands below 10m ? Im...

Thx for the replies, it seems to work ok

Ok I was running my amp on 10 meters stage 1 50watts, I looked ar the swr meter and it was in the red so I must of had a 4 to 5 second key down before realising there was a problem, The problem was a pl259 in the garden that had come loose on a barrel connector, my question is could I have...

Hi Hotrod, only noticed it on fm local work but works well on 10m thx Marconi, I have seen your youtube channel nice job on the antenna tests.

Thx Hotrod, its the Top one with the gamma match.

Ok so I have a basic understanding of quarter wave ground plane antennas, and up untill now the ones I have used had 4 horizontal wire radials so naturally only the whip radiated, but I now I own a sirio top one, with slanted radials, so my question is this, the top one is fed where the radials...