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big mac coils Marconi, those photos you uploaded last year were perfect. I took your size estimates and with a little arithmetic worked a inductance value for the tap on the matching base coil. if the tap is legit in the photo then the ant comes out to 12.7 ohms. the base coil matches it up...

big mac home brew? did anyone ever follow up on trying to make a big mac style antenna home brew? I've been thinking about it, curious if anyone has attempted it...

5/8 over 1/4 or 5/8 over 5/8 The 5/8 over 1/4 looks really nice as presented by ve3ncq. I started looking into this, after sketching out the W58 I just got, made by workman. I can see why sloping radials don't work on 5/8 antennas. the matching device is on the last 1/8 wave after the 1/2...

I was reading about 5/8 antennas and found this article.. 2-Meter EchoLink Antenna 5/8 over 1/4 » VE3NCQ ..an interesting idea of homebrewing a 5/8 antenna over a 1/4 ground plane. here sloping radials would work and could help hone in matching. his model claims 5.71dbd. it would be a big...

W58 problem pistolero, how did you finally make out with the w58 problem? I had one arrive today. I was recommended this by locals cb'ers. and some reviews had it as better quality then the maco v58. ie cleaner machining. One thing I noted was tuning length differences between the maco v58...

4000 tx wavrider, I did find some 1/8" dacron rope, it looks better the paracord. tx, debate, I'll say. its been going on quite a while, reading some of the older posts. Why is the 4000 in question, why would sirio or FM antenna companies make antennas that don't work? I don't...

new vector 4000 hello, I just joined this site, and been interested in the 4000. I havn't heard complaints on its performance setting aside its mechanical strength for the moment. One can use different descriptions to describe that lower section but it looks like a sleeve...