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Homer Have you any experience with a true quad loop where the elements are oriented in the true horizontal and vertical planes some describe this as a box design rather than the diamond one. mounted in this way {true quad }the feedpoint would be in the center of one of the sides for vertical...

phantom high swr input Most Phantoms have a tuned input capacitor located on the rear panel. It should be either a screwdriver slot adjustment or a shaft with small knob. really touchy tuning if your radio has a swr meter just key into the amp and adjust for lowest swr . if no internal...

shakespeare big sticks The Boot Was required to meet the CPSC rules that were placed on vertical CB antennas Those rules were not just for metal vertical cb antennas the big stick had a chrome piece at the top of the bottom section where the top whip screwed into this metal had to be...

Hey kid pm me i have heliax new or used RCB

1/4 wave droopy groundplane Appears to be a 1/4 wave droopy ground plane 2 piece elements made from solid rod aluminum screw together construction do not try to unscrew the 2 halves of each element most likely have corroded together. These were made by antenna Specialists as i think the...

10 meterAM/FM wont be long before the sporadic E skip gets going regular .Be ready for a roller coaster ride next three months . call cq when you can even at 10-11 PM you w may get a surprise when a station answers . the band will still be hit and miss but as the season kicks off there will...

Interesting reading the advertising . The lighthouse reference brings up a few dated questions . How do they claim it radiates from the top When fed in the center one side of the lower element is the feed point down to the ring at the bottom and back up to the boom on opposite side to ground at...

BIG STICK Yes that"s a silver mica capacitor and the resistor looking thing is actually a wirewound choke search online for the color code to reveal it"s value check the connections from both sides of the coax below these parts and see if both have contact with the so239 at the bottom of the...

TODD KC4TVZ That todd is a real piece of work .was trying to work a vk on 425 once and got his routine. a real whack job qrm "s with callsign KC4TVZ *Don`t do it***Jump_im** Callsign kc4tvz First Name TODD M Last Name BURNETTE Address 6415 IVY SPRINGS DR City FLOWERY BRANCH State GA...

shakespeare fiberglass 3 element beam But why is the 3 element use 41inches while the 4 element uses 72 inches? RCB

I have seen a couple of these. It is indeed a factory made Shakespeare antenna. They were made produced in the years after the cb boom years I think around 78-88 era . The matching /balun section was part of the factory made harness consisted of a shorted stub and balun section made...

antenna THE COIL WAS MADE BY HY GAIN IN THE 70's- 80's they made coils for 10-80 meters plus a cb version not sure if the mast is HyGain or notlooks close to a Hustler but it is not. RCB

Also you have 2 choices provide a Adequate RF ground where the antenna is now mounted OR move the antenna to the bed mounted on an L bracket at the top of the bed rail must be mounted away from the roll bar in the clear. RCB

the problem is that the antenna only has a DC ground to the truck bed . The antenna is too far above the bed for it to act as an adiquate counterpoise. You have a great counterpoise close to the antenna ,THE ROOF only one problem . The antenna only has a DC ground path to it through the...

25 mhz fm broadcasts these most likely originate from the DALLAS/FT Worth ,TEXAS area several stations there have transmitters on those frequencies 25.950 25.990 fm They are not stl links although they carry the same programming. They are forIFB/engineering uses mainly used for talkback...

Antenna Its an 800-900 mhz antenna . made by Phelps dodge/Celwave in the 70's and 80's Was also marketed by Motorola. RCB

Was going through a few antenna bases today. Came across all the parts to a Hy Gain CLR 2 MODEL 473 . I thought about rebuilding it with a new matching network. Much to my surprise when i checked the matching coil in the base insulator it was good. I say surprise because most are burnt out or...

Jusr re read this antenna has no gamma match . It has a shorted stub coax matching section. Post some pics if you can so others can see how it's constructed. RCB

Shakespeare 4104 This antenna was designed to cover 23 ch only. The elements are shakespeare 10-3 style fiberglass mobile whips the lengths are correct due to the small dia wire in the whips. If i remember the thing used some type of coax matching section to feed it. After you changed the...

Remote Control Lo Band system SW what you are talking about is a called a DC or Tone remote commonly used as you describe to remotely control a base station radio. The dc type came first and used a small dc current typically 5ma to 20 ma to key the r:thumbup:elay at the other end this type...