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Thats amazing! Cool vid! Insane thrust to keep gaining speed like that!

And I just got down, got down.........:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Hey Booty, just for curosity sake, that length would probably be more in the instance of a poor groundplane? With a better performing ground plane, the vertical would be a bit shorter?:pop:

Ok, not sure. This is the guy I was thinking of.Home

Is he also known as Rick? Or who is the guy in New York known as cbdoctor? Think he has a website..............same guy or no?

Holy Shimoly man!

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Morse, I don't even want to try and guess what you actually typed in the youtube search box!:eek:

Ok here is the exsisting element spacing. Reflector to driven = 84.344" Driven to D1 =56" D1 to D2 = 72.188" D2 to D3 = same D3 to D4 = same This is as close as my Fatmax 25' can get! Guess this spacing is what I have to work with unless I start all over from scratch with differant...

Henry, good info here, I really appreciate your response and highly value your opinion. This is really a lot of info to digest, all good stuff. Now I need to get to work. I have a 20 ft pipe rite now for support till I get it dialed in, have my eyes on a tower, just need to take it down and move...

Marconi, I plugged in the numbers as you guys suggested, I am gonna relay them here because this is good info for everyone. Frequency is 27.205 Reflector = 454.328" Driven = 443.301" D1 = 430.068" D2 = 417.166" D3 = 404.651" D4 = 392.511"...

Thanks hookedon6...........Marconi, I havnt ordered anything,just thinking, if there is merit in optimizing a bit, now is the time to do it. Maybethe feed system could be improved on a bit, direct fed maybe? This is my first big antenna, having fun with this stuff................

I recently came across an old Lightning 6 antenna. The wire and the matching system was beyond repair. The boom and the fiberglass spreaders cleaned up good as new. Got all new hardware to put the boom together, sanded and painted the spreaders, and now need to make a decision. I was in touch...

Thats funny :lol:

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:whistle: West Virginia :whistle: Mountain Momma :whistle: Country road :whistle:

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Hey hookedon6, didn't mean it that way, you are right it doesn't change the accuracy. Was just suggesting that moving the meter to differant places on the transmission line can change the reading a bit. And booty you are right, a 1/2 wave will show an exact reflection of the feedpoint reading...

What Beetle said.........the only thing they were successful in doing was making the swr meter read close to what the antenna read at the feed point. The only reason I would ever do it is if I was gonna run an inline meter and I wanted it to read close to what the analyzer read at the feedpoint...

I do all mine this way, works really well for my voice...........