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All I can say is, "DUCK!!!"

Try the top section at 99", and put a choke (5 coax wraps on 4" former) at 96" down from the point you peeled off your braid from the top section. You likely want to start with the top a little long for trimming to tune. Investigate the flower pot antenna for potentially helpful information.

I'm good. The tornado landed about 10 miles south of me in Springdale. I'm in Rogers. They came closer two years ago knocking down trees and blowing down light structures all around me including half a tree in my front yard. So far the storms have developed no appetite for my ugly homebrew...

Sounds like a lot of trouble having to change slugs and recalibrate for every band. Too much fuss for ham use, but I suppose it will do for a single band. OTOH, almost any meter will do for a single band if your chasing the magical 1.0:1 SWR. I just use my on board radio SWR Meter most of the...

I tried .405 usb several times today. No one answered. I did QSO England on .395 lsb. Some conditions, but ....

I can go anywhere, but would likely only stay within the CB 40 for 11m work. Just my way. Hope it gets worked out.

Hello, Felixx. 2WR183 HOMER

The likely reason it goes up rapidly above channel 40 is the SS section you put on it is "a tad longer than a 99 manual states".

In all the Galaxy radios I've owned the digital counter moved a little like yours, but that actually had no affect on the transmitted or received signal. On the other hand, the actual signal would drift from center frequency and not always be shown on the digital read out. Like you, I turned...

I've built at least a dozen of these with aluminum tubing at the bottom, coax through the tubing and out a PVC insulator at the center, and the center wire going up a fiberglass fishing pole for the upper part. There's one of them a few blocks away that's been in operation for at least a decade.

Years ago I hauled one around with me in my mobile so I could toss a line into a tree and pull it up for a mobile/portable base station at work sites. It worked quite well being a vertical dipole. No big gain, but much better than the mobile antenna.

"Magnetic Shift", that sounds like what happened when that guy who hired me to work for him changed his mind when he found out I wasn't that hot blond gal on my LinkedIn profile picture. He was no longer attracted to me...

Thanks. DARKDUDE. Can you post a photo of you antenna?

Darkdude, it would likely be helpful to those who'd like to follow your process if you'd tell us the dimensions of the coil, height and diameter, or, if you wound it on a former what size, the spacing between wraps, and what material the former is. Great post. Thanks.

It is a good choice. No doubt. But at that height above the ground I think a 1/4 GP would have been equally good, and easier to carry up the tree if the radials were attached after climbing up into the tree. Thinner package to get up there. Don't fall down.

Thanks. I'll see what I can find.

You're being a very nice person. I'm happy knowing that you're my friend.

If you're a careful gardener, you could grow real ivy on it. Put the vertical in a bucket, and ground plane in the grass.

I've got the imperfect/ugly down pat.

The K1JJ looks to be fond of multiple capacitors...