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Recent content by Robert Buttle

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    Base Long wire antenna for cb?

    I have a loop sky wire ant. we use it portable.I made it two waves long at 11m.We feed it with 50 ohm coax and a 4 to1 balun it is a good ant. and not noisy on receive. Needs no coupler on some of the ham bands to 40m. And is dead flat on 11m we've been using it on tent poles about eight feet...
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    Base station antenna -- ground plane addon kit

    Hi I was wondering if you had not bought the ground plane kit, you could try some wire tilted down towards the roof and see if it is better.
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    I wind the whips for my car I like to top load them as it seems to make them less likely to pick up the noise from the cars electrics Never knew if it was just moving field further away from the car or is it putting a horizontal pattern to its radiation making it quite like a beam or dipole...
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    no trouble.I have two tips for the A99 one for 10m. one11m. Both show 50ohm at the feed point.My first go at this computer stuff.
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    wanted trc449 cb or swap for aussie cb

    the aussie cb are a contact 301 ssb and a lankar dw-1200 ssb. all have had glue and bad caps. fixed
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    i think my max2000 would be ok it is1.5 .1. on15m it would need a coupler on 12-17m I have not used it on 20m. I have not had this antenna for long. I like the A99 more I have had it for years . Most portable work I use a terlin outreach antenna its a great antenna.
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    the material on mine is brass once you could only nickel plate brass
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    No he only tapped it to the bottom of the hole that was there, its still sealed.
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    I did know about that but did not want to add quarter wave radials as that would lock into 11m only, this antenna is used as a field day antenna and i have to be able to use it on ham bands as well.
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    I cannot believe that they would not check it before sending it to Australia and it also arrived without the booklet I had to down load it from the internet.
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    My Analyser only wanted to give me a look at 1200khz I got my son to take a picture of the Analyser in 2 pictures the 2 to 1 edge is at 27 200 and the top end is in the other picture sorry I couldnt do better
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    I Have a retired Motor Mechanic mate and the thread that was missing he was able to tap it for me as it was the same as a Ford F250 wheel stud.
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    I don't know whether my antenna was damaged in transit, it doesn't appear to have any marks on the outside, but nowhere on my antenna analyzer can i find a 50 ohm feed point moving the rings anywhere from top to bottom
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    I wouldn't buy this antenna without seeing it first. for mine arrived without the thread tapped into the base section to allow the second section to screw into it. At the moment my analyser is with the other ham in our town, and as soon as I get it back I will get a picture of the screen whilst...
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    Base SOLARCON Scoop

    I've just bought a max 2000 as well, was hoping to use mine on 11m, but my analyser says that its resonance is 28.030 it doesn't really upset me as I'm a ham as well an I just use it on 10m, however it does seem a little short for 11m