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Coil Enforcer Thank's for a great product Dan and look forward to seeing pictures of those yagi Antenna's when you get them finished. 73's Murray

Coily Downunder Mr Clean, I usually listen on 27.475 lsb but also 38 lsb on the standard 40. Here in NZ we have our own band of 40 channels 26.330 to 26.770. SSB call channel is 35 26.720 lsb. The Coily is working just as Dan said it would and works great from the bottom of the NZ band to the...

I finally got my Mr Coily Enforcer Base Antenna up and was really pleased with the results.Antenna full height is just under 66 ft to the top of the antenna. It is replacing my Shakespear 21ft 5/8 NBS 2010 which is being moved down to our beach house. Big problem with the Shakespear as with...

Base Antenna Thomas, with most of the verticals you don't need to go to the expence of a tower, usually a twenty foot length of 1 1/2" galvanized steel water pipe is enough to give a reasonable clearance above other structures. Simple brackets can be made out of stainless steel and use U bolts...

Base Antenna Thomas a simple A99 or better still an Imax with no G/P kit might best suit your needs. From memory the Maco has groundplanes on it which may upset the neighbours. Murray

Base Antenna Thomas, you might want to look at coily's website on www.mrcoily.com , his Enforcer base might be just what your looking for. I have just purchased one and are waiting for it to arrive, will let you know how it performs when I get it up. How did you get on with the 2950dx did...

Antennas 351, I also live in a valley, surrounding hills are about 50 ft higher than the top of my antenna on one side the top of the hills is about 100yards away and on the other side about three hundred yards away there was no difference between tx and rx on either of the 5/8 antennas. We...

Antenna's 351 before you run out and buy an Imax do a bit of research on what tv channels are being used in your area , if there are channels being used between 50 and 60 mhz forget about the Imax, A99 or for that matter any of the fiberglass antenna's and go with the Maco V 5/8 or one of the...

Shakespear vs A99 Jim, I've only tested the three antenna's via ground wave so have no idea how much different the skip performance would be. on ground wave through quite mountainous terrain there was no difference between the NBS 2010 and the Imax 2K. Noise was about the same as the Imax...

Shakespear vs A99 RW, You hit the nail right on the head, at 10 dollars put it up and try it, hell I've worked europe from my QTH in New Zealand on an A99 when the band was open, put it up and use it, if you want something better later buy it then. The only problem I can see with the...

Shakespear vs A99 351, I think we need to know which model of the Shakespear Big Stick that you have as the lengths varied from about 16 ft to 21 ft. Mine was the 21ft 5/8 (nbs 2010) which is rated at 5kw, I can tell you that this antennais a great improvement on the A99 and performs as well...

Antenna's Phil, I have found that the combination of a flatside beam and a vertical like the A99 or Imax is good, the vertical lets you hear everything around you and then you can just flick the switch to go flatside. Murray

Mini Beams Stealman, have a look at Mosley's website, they have a 3 element yagi with short elements on a 10ft boom. Mosley products are a little expensive but are excellent quality. Try this link www.mosley-electronics.com Murray

Antenna's and amps Snake the Imax 2000 will be able to easily take the power of that KLV550 The Imax and the A99 are two very cost effective antenna's, simple to install the ground plane kit maybe of relatively little advantage but may help reduce TVI. Both of these antenna's have a bit of a...

Heil mics RFOverlord sorry for the late reply. Like most of Heils products it is a good microphone. I have only tried it on ssb though, I have also converted a few mic's with both Heils HC4 &HC5 elements audio quality is excellent but you don't get the same punch that you get with a power mic...