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Somewhere i missed about having the ground-rod in the cellar. Not good if you do. The idea is to carry as much lightning energy away from your house as you can. Which means spendings lots of money on a complete lightning system. 1 or 2 rods is not nearly enough to disperse that much energy...

A 8ft ground-rod spaced 1ft apart from another rod is useless for lightning protection. The second rod needs spaced 8-16ft from the first rod to be effective.

Living in a bad climate the diamond shape would be best. Not to mention that large birds would less likely sit-on a diamond shape compared to square. Performance Difference: I don't know the true answer to that question either. I owned a Signal Engineering Quad last summer. Sold it as it...

Yes, i know S-meters are not that accurate. I was mainly testing to see which antenna heard people the best and transmitted the best as i talk alot of local. Out of all that i tested, i'm running the one that performed the best and luckily it's also the best constructed antenna. You guys...

Not sure how the Top One gets out compared to the orginal Astroplane. Having said that: My I-10k beat the Top One, both 10ft off the ground and 45ft to feedpoint (I-10K)--- 45ft to bottom ring of Top One. It was over a 2 S-unit difference. So, even raising Top One to a tip to tip test...

Yeah your right on the crap shoot. To many things a changing to compare antennas for the best DX.

The 9.9 dbi gain is way off the mark. The true gain of a A-99 is 1.8 dbi gain. The true gain of a Imax 2000 is 2.9 dbi gain. 3.2 dbi gain w/GPK

Solorcon was bought out by DAS. Here's their site address http://www.das-roadpro.com/das/index.asp

We had a guy here who had up a 4 element Jo-Gunn Star series. Which looks like a Gizmotchy. He disliked its local performance ability. He changed it into a Jo-Gunn conventional 4 element, installed in the Verticle position. Which would be like a Maco 104. He got better local performance...

Here's the place we bought our Aluminum tubing. http://www.windevor.com Heres where you can download Maco Beam Manuals: http://www.majestic-comm.com/assembly/index.htm

Yes, aluminum has really gone up in price over the pasr few years. We just bought some heavy walled aluminum to build a solid 5 element beam for a guy.( Jo-Gunn sized elements and strength. EXPENSIVE!) Replacing his Maco beam, which got wind twisted. Click on link below to check out...

Yeah, your right Mole.

Are you going to mount antennas inside your home or outside??? Marconi your post was OK. I was just sharing other options he could take. Straight co-phasing only gets out good in 2 directions. Forward and backward. Is this what you want???

Co-Phase 2 A-99 antennas. The mobile whips will not work good unless you provide a good groundplane under them (Metal). I take it your mounting them outside. ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.signalengineering.com/ultimate/co_phasing.html

Interceptor 10K....

Well when i tested the Astro Plane (Top One) here. I mounted the hoop 5 ft over top of the tower. Other antennas with bottom feedpoints at 5ft over tower. Reason: A.P. takes too much pipe to get it higher. Already had 13ft of mast just to get it 5ft over. Didn't want to push my luck to do a...

Well you guys have fun with your testing. Sounds like a great idea and could be a good education. I can't participate, but, enjoy doing my own testing here. Good Luck!

The Maco V5/8 is a good modest priced antenna. Will not hold up to a severe thick ice storm though. Radials will bend or break. Already had it happen to me. That's the only reason i will not run one again. Other then that, good performing antenna for CB. If severe climate is not a issue you...

Had Top One up for about 3-4 months. Caused no interference. Had it up about 30-31 ft to ring. Used regular TV mast and winds already had mast bent in that 3-4 months. I would suggest using stronger mast. I would also suggest securing the ring to the mast to keep it from swaying with...

If you like your antenna, just enjoy using it. Just thought i'd throw in my 2 cents...LOL Results i got from switching from A-99 to Imax 2000 was about a 1/4 S-unit difference here. My friend replaced a A-99 with a Imax on his end and i noticed the same 1/4 S-unit difference. I've lost...