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It's a 4 element delta loop from SmarTech Innovations in Italy. The price wss $724, then I upgraded the Gamma match for another $40 Then i had to pay shipping, another $200. This things about 60 lbs. Figured if I was gonna go, I might as well go big. And while I'm at it, I need some suggestions...

Told my wife I was expecting a package to show up near the end of the week, hopefully. She asked what it was, I said an antenna. She asked, how much was that? I said, you really don't want to know. She asked $ 500? I said yeah, plus about 400 more. Then I hear $900 DOLLARS!! lets just say...

I've never been to Michigan, but what little I've seen in pictures looks like it's beautiful. My buddy is from Green Creek Michigan. I don't see him very often but I usually text him every year when Michigan and Ohio State play football. I think I've mentioned this to you in a different thread...

LOL!! That explains why your Oklahoma accent is a little bit different. I thought you might have been an Army brat. My brother sounds like an Army brat and we grew up around this area. Maybe I just talk lazy :unsure:

I like both homemade and store-bought antennas. But Im more proud of the homemade antennas I've built, especially if someone gives flowers about my signal. You can make a homemade antenna as cheap or expensive as you'd like. I've got $300 in my homemade co phased ground plane after I upgraded...

Spent the day making gutters out of 4 inch PVC, I think they turned out pretty good. Now I just need to paint them. Rain just pours into the carport because they goofed up my concrete when they poured it. They built the frame and roof before pouring the slab, they didn't have enough bracing and...

Yes I live in SE Oklahoma and we've had earthquakes or so Im told, I can't honestly say I've felt one. But the ammunition plant in McAllister shakes the house sometimes when they are disposing of bombs.

Greg T, I appreciate all of you're help, I've thought for a year now I paid good money for a paperweight. Now I'm thinking maybe I should do like you and have it calibrated. But at least with the amp on it's reading the correct SWR. Im just happy its working because I really like the look of...

BINGO!!!! You figured it out!! I didn't know that about the carrier watts, my radio only does 4 ish watts and on the low side it will do 2 watts. After reading your reply I immediately went to the radio and checked, 2 and 4 ish watts nothing, but after I turned my little 250 watt amp on, I only...

I don't know how im just seeing this video? But I am the kid that could never find the Easter eggs!!! That is the exact Diawa meter I have. I did go up and down the band above and below 40 but still only had the slightest movement of the needle. If i don't figure it out I'll take it and let...

You may be right about my SWR. I hooked my Diawa meter backwards like Nomad suggested and the opposite needle moves, so it should be working correctly. But as I started really looking at the scale I noticed for the first time the needle sits at 0 and just a little further down the needle is 1.1...

AWK did get back to me yesterday morning. He explained they are a small supplier and that they have some limitations on what they're capable of but offered to work with me. I'm sure we could have worked it out but I was dead set on buying an antenna that very minute. I thanked him for getting...

OK, here's a little update. I worked nights last hitch so I haven't got my days and nights straight yet, in about 2 hrs I will have been up 24 hrs. So I've been spending money. I ordered the 4 element delta loop from AWK and 3 hrs later they canceled the order because they didn't realize at...

After several weeks of going back and forth over should I buy this beam or not, I finally pulled the trigger tonight and bought a 4 element delta loop from AWK antennas. I looked at the SmarTech 4 element delta loop also. The AWK is very similar in build same square boom, very similar in the...

I'll try that

I'm kinda leaning towards broken. With the Power Scanner and the old Rat Shack meter my SWR reading isn't flat but they aren't far from it. I guess I should hook it up to a completely different radio set up and see if there's a difference.

I've looked at that manual 6 way to Sunday, and all I could ever get to move was one of the needles. I've even watched some videos and can see both needles move and intersect giving an SWR reading. But when I try, only one of the needles move no matter what ive tried. It's pretty much just...

I don't like my Diawa 901, I'm either to stupid to use it or it doesn't work right? But I do like my old school PDC 700 Power Scanner, I have no problems using it. Don't think they make them anymore.

Reading through the comments, Unit_399 made a comment that jarred a memory. I remember our parents bought me and my brother some walkie-talkies for Christmas around 1975-76. Dad was messing around with my walkie-talkie setting inside the house, he was talking to a guy in a neighborhood back...

57yrs old. In the early 70's my neighbor Richard (part time babysitter, I was friends with his kids) had a base station in his kitchen that I thought was cool. Then in 76 Daddy bought a JC Penny Pinto 23 ch CB that I would mess with. I dug it out of his closet about 1990 and have been in and out...