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You were sand coliced :scared:

That's going to be a little different than a small homebrew on a pushup pole. You'll need to concrete in a base and erect a tower for anything that big. Over earth (ground gain) the dipole will show ~7dBi, and the moxon ~10dBi. To get into 15-20dBi territory you are talking at least a 5...

:lol: good one!

We are on topic :thumbup1:

Yup, I'm officially confused. You said the ends were pointed NE and SE which sounds like a horizontal "V", not an inverted, or vertical "V". I just modeled a horizontal dipole, an inverted "V" dipole, and a horizontal "V" dipole and at 20' to the feed-point and there isn't much difference in...

You'll just need do decide if you want to build a homebrew, or assemble purchased design. Yagi's and quad's are mostly going to require a tower, while dipoles, moxons etc will not. But you've been here for awhile, poke around in this very section.

Doesn't that make the antenna more omni directional? I thought I read once that it did, but I don't know. I'm still confused I guess, lol. A horizontal dipole is already horizontal. But you are laying an inverted V horizontal as well.

That's about what your Moxon does over a dipole, and the mosfet conversion takes considerably less time. But like Robb said, it's mostly a parts availability issue in trying to keep some of these radios going. I know some will remove a perfectly good 2sc1969 and replace it with an irf520...

I guess I'm still not following. If I point my antenna due east from Ohio, I'm pointing at S. Africa. If I want Europe, I point ~45* to the NE ....... is that what you mean? Are you laying an inverted "V" over on it's side and pointing that due east?

Delta loop

If he's wanting into Europe, he'd want to stretch a dipole NW-SE. I'm not sure what you mean about the catchers mitt.

A dipole would be simple to construct with stuff you probably have laying around, or for an additional 3dB or so, the Moxon is a neat little antenna that takes slightly more effort to build.

Am I reading that right?

This reminds me of the $2500 flat CRT I bought, lol. A few years after I bought it, I couldn't give the 1000# behemoth away. But I think SDR will be more forgiving than that.

I think you're right dc2rf, sdr is the future, but at what point do you dive in? Only you can answer that question.

And to be flat out honest, nobody could tell a hill of beans difference in their RX anyway. A lot of this simply has to do with nostalgia. The new 148's and the whole SSB warble seems to be a real and correctable issue, but I'm not spending big bucks on an old CB radio.

Why do you think it wouldn't? That's why they color coded it that way.

It's not hooked up properly. You have 3 red sockets to choose depending on the type of measurement, and one black socket. The black lead always stays in the black socket.

Yep, it's exactly the same .......... well, except the SDR requires an antenna and depends on propagation and all that stuff.

LOL, that would dang near put him at a net loss :scared: