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You never know what might bring sopmeone back out of hiding

Sorry to here it. so what do you replace it with?

I'm kinda wonderinhg what you ended up with

Hey JT, I'm curious what channel you frequent and what's your handle so I'll know it's you if I hear you on your new Astroplaine. I just go by my middle name ''Sheaffer'' and usaully listen or DX on L36 - L38. I'm located near Ashland OR - You? meglotron g mail

How abouot an update

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but how much? is the tuning going to go sky hi? I doubt it will change more than maybe 5 or 10 channels and you can always tune the matching rings to fine tune it.

OK it's been a while, I know, but isn't 9' up plus 9' down 18 feet? and isn't 18' a 1/2 wave? Isn't splitting it from the coax in the middle a 1/2 wave dipole in the vertical? So I still believe when you bend the 1/4 wave horizontal ground planes down you have made a 1/2 wave antenna from a 1/4...

if you have 9 feet going up and 9 feet going out as radials then you got a 1/4 wave but when the radials bend down isnt that a 1/2 wave?

i wonder if something like flexseal spray would stop that sprayed all around the base and coax conector. maybe yours was getting into the coax not the antenna.dont seem right theyd build an antenna to go up in swrs when it gets wet

i dont see a half wave as a groundplain but you can read online about it only needing short radials if any, like 2 feet is all but yes isolated

lol, thats because they are in effingham, illinois

beats the a99

when i want to cut through better i use my monkey made with the polished whip because it makes my transmision sound brighter but when someone has a high piched speaker i put the anodized black whip back on because it doesn't sound so brite. so when theres cute sounding girls on the radio and i...

is fence rail actualy strong enough to support an antenna?