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I am late to this, but an old Elmer once told me “do the best you can with what you have”. The worst antenna you can make strung through bushes in your backyard 4 feet off the ground is better than the best antenna you don’t have. I have built several antennas and strung them everywhere I could...

Sorry, this was my thread and I didn’t get any email notifications like I usually do so I thought nobody replied lol. I did put up my “normal V” dipole last weekend. It went on a 36 foot mast, underneath an old Shakespeare. (My main antenna is on a separate tower 60 feet up). I didn’t get much...

this is just a quick but curious question that I’ve been unable to find a solid answer for, whenever I research a V dipole almost all the information I pull up is an inverted V. What would be the plus, or the negative of an upright V verses it being inverted? Why does everyone seem to favor it...

No, sorry. But this was a very interesting thread

Thanks for that! I had really considered using a Balun, and had even found the parts here to make one. But from what I read during my research,,,,, most were saying a Balun wasn’t needed? I wonder if that would have helped me with some of my troubles.

I guess I just don’t know where to set my expectations. I don’t mean this in a cynical way. I’ve never had anything except verticals. When skip rolls in, I pick it up on my maco and take advantage of it. I decided I’d like something dedicated towards skip. I just don’t know if this dipole will...

Hey Gary, do you think 20 feet will be sufficient.? I’m wanting this to run on a separate radio for skip purposes. I already have a Maco V58 that’s 60 feet up . I could probably get this higher if I just keep working at it over the next few weeks unless and it’s just not really worth it.

Funny wavrider, that’s kind of what I had in my head. I have Dacron rope here. Do you have a picture of your setup?

Ok worked on this all day. Scratched putting it on my tower. Was just too dangerous up there trying to make this work. Ended up with it being horizontal and on a 20 foot pole, the top part of the pole being 2 feet of pvc. After MANY tries, up and down, trimming and soldering, swearing and...

As far as the rest of you guys, I’m on my way home from the hardware store. I went down and got me a bunch of new parts and stuff that I need to do this thing the right way. I’ll come back to this thread to let you know how I got on. I appreciate the advice that everybody has given me this is...

Well hell I have a 20 foot pipe. I didn’t think that would be high enough to do anything

10-4. That picture you looked at is just a 10 foot pole that this was temporarily mounted to. The antenna in the background is just an old Shakespeare antenna that performs poorly. My actual tower isn’t pictured. I can remake this whole thing if I need to. I literally spent an hour making...

Yup, I slid it right in the tower so it was teetering then used a zip tie to hold it down. I guess I need to afro engineer a doohickey like you just mentioned. Dammit man. I worked up some unknown courage to climb that bastard now i gots to do it over

well,,,,,,,., problems. Big ones. I left it horizontal because I read that was better for DX. I already have a Maco V5000 above it. I got it 37 feet up, slid it in the tower z bar and zip tied it. My SWR are an ungodly 2.6 on 1 and 1.7 on 40. I guess this is unacceptable and I’m going to...

I have a sweet 16 I was hoping to use with it, I swing to about 1100 when I drive it with a 100watt kicker. I thought I remembered reading on this form somewhere that you don’t want them to be over 1.3 . Who knows maybe I’ll get lucky and they will drop a little bit when I get it up in the air...

hi, this is my second time of making a dipole antenna and this one is a success. It’s made out of some spare RG8U. I had it 18 feet in length and then I trimmed off 1 inch at a time on each end until I got to 1.5 on channel one, and 1.5 on channel 40. I was afraid to go further. Is this...

This post from 2009, is the only mic wiring diagram on the entire internet for the Sadelta that I could find. And I was able to rewire one I acquired from a barn find, to a 4 pin. :) finally

I am. I’m replacing my jumpers one by one. I think I may have found the bad one. When I grabbed it with my hand the radio get static

It’s a new sweet. 8-2SC2879 Very eager to get this. I’m wondering if an rm Italy kL 203 would make a good driver for it. I don’t have a radio that puts out a stock 100 watts. Closest I can get is that president Richard, I get 50 watts pep out f it. Everything else I have to drive with some...

I’m probably making everybody confused. I have a Texas star 500 V in-line now. The sweet 16 is on the way