Recent content by walterb

HomerBB, Two antennas I use are a 40m & 80m DB made by IAC or a well built G5RV built by HF antennas that can be brought on ebay the 102' one is the best one. Reason both have a great signal to noise ratio an a lot of gain, so you can drop the RF gain back and still hear the weak signals well...

Time has passed, still using the resonant 43' vertical, all is well with it, I said Barn Burner on 160m back in 2011, in my post, i know now that was an over statement when it comes to 160m antennas, a good inverted Ell higher could work better but not from what antennas I have used here on 160m...

Have had 2 94HP over the last 5 years and lots of Galaxy radio, one of the 94HPs I brought from him, I also had a problem with it sent if back to Sparky and he repaired the radio and sent it back to me, it worked for a while again but the problem reappeared again. I sent it to Galaxy repair the...

43' Vertical Here is what I did for the last 2 years on my 43' vertical, I added a screwdriver mobile antenna in series with the feed line coax to the 43' vertical. It works 10-160m with a SWR on 1.2 to 1 or less. works great 5-1000+ watts, talks an hear well, have the 43' vertical mounted...

BM, This is something I do, use the vent pipes on my house which are PVC have when putting a A99 or a IMAX up and make a choke out of coax excess coax I may have, have had good results do so!..........KB6HRT

A99/ SWR mr_FX I like your style, you took an A99 with a blown matching cap in it an made the antenna work again, your my kind of guy BRAVO an had some FUN doing it! KB6HRT:)

Tony, From what you have described sounds like a GAP Titan which I believe is a 10-80m antenna, take a look at one on the internet an see if it looks like it! Have had a lot of 11m base antennas over the past 20 year, Marconi has got into this stuff a lot deeper than I, think he has this...

Wavrider Sometimes if the wattage of the radio has a low carrier 1 or 2 watts you can take a piece of small wire take a couple of turns around the coax then around the FS antenna an you will see a stronger reading on the FS meter, on a HF rig it not necessary most of the time!......KB6HRT

kb6led, That is the most cost effect way, an your performance will not be compromised............KB6HRT;)

Needle Bender, Think about what you said, you have answered your own question.. makes thing real simple for some difficult installations. Came up with that one about 35 years ago, an has worked for me many time since...........KB6HRT

Wilson 5000 W5LZ, w5lz has made the point nicely, Back in the day had a President Pa 11m antenna that was very broudbanded that would stretch from the lower part of 10m to 26.500 an worked well, the nice thing about that antenna was the coil was next to the stinger, an was mounted on some sort...

Zerofive Antennas Doc, Thank you, thats it in a nut shell!...........KB6HRT

Zerofive Antennas wavrider Don't know if you read my post on Zerofive 43' verticals on eham or not but you may have realized I turned the ZF 43' vertical into a resonant antenna system, before I brought the ZF 43' vertical I tried a trapped dipole that would play but it had a very narrow...

Zerofive Antennas wavrider Have a little more background would like to share, I was one of Bill Fanchoner customers W9INN antennas, he was an old school antenna builder, from my come from the best of the best by far. I use and have used W9INN antennas, have one custom one he built for me...

Zerofive Antennas wavrider, Thank you for some of your references on antennas, I did compare one of your references W8JI 102' G5RV with the one I built at this QTH an is in use for the last 3+ years. W8JI KB6HRT 75M 3.1 75m 1.4 40m 4.1 40m 2.3 20m 2.1 20m 2.1...