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Here are some of photos of that stacked setup on a free standing tower. Stacked Moonraker 4's

There used to be a guy here in the DFW area that built these antennes for years and everybody thought they were great. I lived about 40 miles from him as the crow flies and the best one I ever heard him talk on was what he called a 7/8 wave. Don't know how long it was but I could hear him...

I ran one back in the mid 70's for a while with the boom mounted at 74 feet. With 5 watts I could talk to and hear barefoot mobiles 50 miles away while at the same time completely blocking out a loud female on a Browning station that was only 2 miles from me. Being it's so short in length it...

Nice job Starduater, you do good work. I like all the old Avanti antennas, they made good stuff that worked well and didn't sell hype. I converted an original Astroplane into an AstroBeam a few years back from memory from 1974 and the specs I found online. It's a very picky antenna, if...

Bob Thanks for the info on the coil. I've been waiting all this time but I guess I didn't get an email notice there was a reply. I was notified when you updated Photobucket so I Googled the Avanti AV-190 Saturn again to find this site, I forgot where I posted. :) Now I can make the coil...

Bob 85 That and the fact that it weighs 5 pounds more than a Moonraker 4 and raising in on a push-up pole can be quite a job in itself. Mine is missing the copper DC ground coil. If you can give me any info as to it's size, number of turns etc. it would be much appreciated. Thanks KT

Bob 85 Did you ever get around to putting this up yet? I have one like it, new in the box unassembled I haven't put up yet. KT