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The tornado came in. It sucks. Just staying with Astroplane. The screws won’t tighten. Ground plane rod fell out. Top fell in. After 3 hours. And noise my god the noise. Tuned good but ugh

I need it to warm up a little and need some time off work so I can piddle around outside. Miss it

At some point it matters which one. But I ain’t found it yet.

Thanks man. I’d been wondering the take off on a low dipole and polarization field. So if you ran a low horz dipole It’d be Omni and almost looks vertical on the chart? Am I seeing that right?

I mean yeah sorta. I was wanting to see the various charts at say 5,10,15,20,25. Just wanting to see the pattern changes as it rises above the ground. What I’m long for is how the horz dipole preforms as an Omni at low heights and the gain directions.

Anyone have a list of plots for 10m at various heights? Was wanting to see the different graphs from the low to high heights. Thanks

My ss whip and spring on the van gets 25.305 to 30.0 under a 2 swr. Crazy

What would that do? I know it’ll shunt it and make it a dc ground basically. But beyond that?

Dipole has almost a 3mhz. I’ve just been thinking. Playing around. I stepped away for a while and now I want to go back to playing around. Astro still working fine. Just wanting more. I could take the matching coil off and just add a remote tuner at the base. But that’s way up there. And I’m way...

Well poo

Not after a dummy load bud. Good idea tho

Right now I can’t say it’s still in shipping. Supposed to be a 1mhz spread as it sits.

Sirio tornado 5/8. It has an external coil. If I wanted to broadband it to have a wider freq range what could I do? Longer coil? Fatter surface area coil? Need ideas

I’ve spent lots of time effort and money playing with stupid antennas. Taking down free ones and rebuilding them or picking up new ones. It don’t matter from what I see. A stick is just a stick. But let me explain. End fed verticals. Straight up in the air sticks of aluminum is what I’m...

Is it just me or does it seem that different radios using a different intermediate frequency are more susceptible to electrical noise That hurt my head