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In all the Galaxy radios I've owned the digital counter moved a little like yours, but that actually had no affect on the transmitted or received signal. On the other hand, the actual signal would drift from center frequency and not always be shown on the digital read out. Like you, I turned...

I've built at least a dozen of these with aluminum tubing at the bottom, coax through the tubing and out a PVC insulator at the center, and the center wire going up a fiberglass fishing pole for the upper part. There's one of them a few blocks away that's been in operation for at least a decade.

Years ago I hauled one around with me in my mobile so I could toss a line into a tree and pull it up for a mobile/portable base station at work sites. It worked quite well being a vertical dipole. No big gain, but much better than the mobile antenna.

"Magnetic Shift", that sounds like what happened when that guy who hired me to work for him changed his mind when he found out I wasn't that hot blond gal on my LinkedIn profile picture. He was no longer attracted to me...

Thanks. DARKDUDE. Can you post a photo of you antenna?

Darkdude, it would likely be helpful to those who'd like to follow your process if you'd tell us the dimensions of the coil, height and diameter, or, if you wound it on a former what size, the spacing between wraps, and what material the former is. Great post. Thanks.

It is a good choice. No doubt. But at that height above the ground I think a 1/4 GP would have been equally good, and easier to carry up the tree if the radials were attached after climbing up into the tree. Thinner package to get up there. Don't fall down.

Thanks. I'll see what I can find.

You're being a very nice person. I'm happy knowing that you're my friend.

If you're a careful gardener, you could grow real ivy on it. Put the vertical in a bucket, and ground plane in the grass.

I've got the imperfect/ugly down pat.

The K1JJ looks to be fond of multiple capacitors...

Yes. That's the idea.

Ahh, yes, I like a good pair of Italian shoes. I prefer beans and beef on my tortillas.

Does anyone unbox it in English? I haven't used Italian in nearly 66 years... oh, wait, that's my age.

Strips of Spa Hose from Home Depot (sells by the foot) and hot glue. It's the K1JJ I am thinking to do. Because I only have 100w I figure the copper wire will work for me instead of tubing.

I have finally began putting together my manual tuner. I rolled those two inductors about 3 years ago. I got busy, and sidetracked. Now, I've just mounted them on the board. I know, primitive, but what else do I do... What I will likely need is some of you who've made your own to offer tips...

That's it. Gotta hand it to him. The cans-antenna was a lotta work, and pretty cool.

I don't know... My chicken wire 11m 1/4 GP seemed to be the uncontested winner in one of these build offs until the other fellow screwed together his 1/4 GP from beer cans. It seems the popularity of beer over chickens took the win away from me. It felt like a crappy sudden death NFL overtime...

Git ur dun.