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M-216 BIG DADDY Antenna
- Thread starter silvereagle1
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Hi I can talk 30-40 miles on a good day 25 with lots of noise on the air. Thats 4 watt deadkey 10 on the swing. I think it as good of an antenna as one can get and it dose a real good job. The boy lives about 40 miles from me and i dont have any trouble talking to him most of the time. Around here there is no one to talk to so i talk to the boy most of the time. As far as skip go's it is one of the best' at least i think so. Thanks foe asking God Bless silvereagle 1
I hope that add is not obama tearing our antennas down and taking our radios away.
any chance i could get a copy of your assy/parts manual?? I have a hurricane damaged big Daddy that i acquired in a tower takedown that i want to rebuild as time permits. A PDF copy would be great!!!
Tyrone / N5XES
n5xes@arrl.net
Tyrone / N5XES
n5xes@arrl.net
tnx,
I used to put 'em up for other people but never had to assemble one.
I'm also hoping to find a good pdl-2 to do some moonraker mods with also. as long as i can salvage one with good loops i can build the rest of it from the dozen or so long lost hurricane damaged 'RAKER antennas i have layin' around!!!!!
I used to put 'em up for other people but never had to assemble one.
I'm also hoping to find a good pdl-2 to do some moonraker mods with also. as long as i can salvage one with good loops i can build the rest of it from the dozen or so long lost hurricane damaged 'RAKER antennas i have layin' around!!!!!
C
cdx304
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Yes have had one up for years ..built like a tank and talks well if you can fine one grab it .
Mur
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I will do that' maybe some one would like to build one. I myself dont know how to do thar on this thing but the wife dose and i will have here do that. I am no computer whiz i one finger this thing to death.Anyway will do.
SE1, sent his manual a long time ago...just as he promised. I also emailed CB Tricks back then trying to find out how to post SE1's manual, but I never heard back. I just tried to email them again, but the email was returned...undeliverable.
Does anybody know how to post this Antenna Specialist manual of the Big Daddy on CB Tricks?
I modeled the Big Daddy 5 element dual polarity beam SilverEagle1 sent me some time back, but I could not get it to work as intended...not even close. See Eznec model below.
This is a strange antenna design in that its dimensions are very different than any CB yagi beam I have ever checked out, albeit was likely designed for CB 23 channel service.
Even so, I cannot get this beam to show good results and still stick with the specks noted in the manual. I'm surprised considering SE1 gave us a very good report back then.
So, I wanted to ask him some questions, but he hasn't been around for a long time. Has anyone else ever worked this antenna?
This is a strange antenna design in that its dimensions are very different than any CB yagi beam I have ever checked out, albeit was likely designed for CB 23 channel service.
Even so, I cannot get this beam to show good results and still stick with the specks noted in the manual. I'm surprised considering SE1 gave us a very good report back then.
So, I wanted to ask him some questions, but he hasn't been around for a long time. Has anyone else ever worked this antenna?