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For all this you earn the coveted antenna homebrewing award:

I had not noticed a difference when I also replaced the original whip with a SS whip. It could be that my reason for doing it was because the original had been broken and I wanted to get back on the air not paying attention to any improvement except for being operational again.

Caliman409, please do as you wish. However, I personally hope you'll hang around. I've gotten my nose bloodied a few times, but love it here. We don't always agree with each other, but we all learn from each other. Writing things down is nowhere as near effective as having a personal...

We agree, and, yet, not everyone can reverse out of their current setup and make a second purchase. And, actually, the OP was asking advice about whether adding a SS whip would maximize his current gear. Instead, he got numerous telling him how comparatively bad his antenna is, and "what's the...

They told me it wouldn't work, but it did. They told me it wouldn't work well, but it did. They told me something else would work better, but I wasn't using something else. They told me I was crazy while my logbooks filled up. They wrote some math hieroglyphics on the internet to prove me wrong...

DB, not vague at all. We've seen other phenomena that defies the general perception of things as they relate to the earth and antenna types. Notice the overlaid models (thank you, Marconi) of the AP and A99, both 1/2 wave antennas of different types, at 65' upper tip height. The AP clearly has...

@DB Perhaps there is additional capacitance to the earth, it being closer to the antenna, that benefits the model... At 30' and free space such capacitance is not influencing the outcome? Maybe adding a slightly higher value capacitor to the 30' & FS models to see what happens might give...

I have found 43 mix to be the most useful across the HF spectrum, but I've seen other types recommended for various uses. The T200-2 is often recommended for 9:1...

I'm slow, too, but it's old age.

Let's say your got into your Concord jet and flew to the Southern USA. There you ran into your shack to work those conditions you saw on the QTH Europe map. Alas, they aren't there... why, because the atmosphere isn't the same everywhere at a given moment, and the conditions are different...

I use the one that when I turn on my radio if I hear people I've got propagation, if it's silent, I don't have propagation. Never used those maps, but it seems to me that if the colors represent varying conditions it makes perfect sense that they would change based on where you are at. There...

In the attached photos you'll see two different styled baluns, both 4:1 transformers. I do not recall the mix of the two sleeved toroids; I built it 3 or 4 years ago to use for a low band 5:1 (it worked out being a 4:1) as the feedpoint transformer for a loop on the ground receive antenna...

I went by the MoxGen dimensions. I left the spacing alone and adjusted the driven wires and reflector wires proportionate to each other.

Long ago before I bought the analyzer.

No. By the time I got an analyzer I had moved on to other builds. I would use the analyzer for future antennas of all types, including Moxons.

Marconi, you once shared this. I hope it uploaded. If not, I emailed it to you.

The question is simple, and geared to my way of thinking. I am always less interested in hieroglyphics, and more interested in what did you do and why YOU chose that one. And, of course, did it work and how well. Especially in multiband antenna use. Making baluns and ununs isn't difficult, but...

Actually, so is mine, although she doesn't talk on the radio. It was just an old project that had served its time and she had patiently waited for the right moment to request me remove it.

Wouldn't higher first mean 6>10>12>15>20, etc..?

Do your radios and gear make good sweet tea? She's been very patient, twelve years of the thing and I still have other options. There's 65' of tower waiting to be put up.