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Looks good. Now get that pride amp off the floor!

Stacked the tower by hand by myself. Had a helper pull each antenna up with a rope and pulley. Wasnt fun getting the beam around the guy wires but we got the beam up in about 20 minutes.

SWR didnt change with the beam below it at all.

The I10k is 124' to the bottom and the M104 is 114' to the boom. LMR-400 coax all the way with ameritron remote switch box.

Good choice

Skip has been coming from everywhere here in NC. I bet I talked to 15 states last night!

I put up the 6 element and really did not like it! It was not as broadbanded and I had to get it dead on the station because the front end was so closed. I put the 4 element back up. I did get about a .5 S unit more gain if I had it DEAD ON them by testing with other stations on flat but it...

I have the 6 element assembled in the back yard 6 feet off the ground and tuned the best I can get it. One thing I notice is the 6 is not nearly as broadbanded as the 4. The SWR is 1.6 on 26.9 mhz and 1.5 on 27.5 on my 259 analyzer. Remember the 4 is 85' up and the 6 is 6' off the ground...

They are about 8' apart and I dont notice any interference. Go for the 104C. I love it on flat.

You see now why I put this part in my post now: "Does anyone have EXPERIENCE changing from one of these to the other?" If I get anywhere close to the 3db gain advertised it will be like doubling power and have better rejection. I got on last night for a while on AM and got radio checks a ways...

One guy had both 25' off the ground....one in his front yard and one in the back. The other guy took one down and put the other up. Its only $140 more + the gamma and i can use the other antenna for another project I want to try. I like experimenting with different things....its fun to me. I...

How true. My neighbor 2 miles away runs a Galaxy saturn and an 8 tuber doing 800 watts with an Antron 30' up. I stomp him with 100 watts every direction with LMR400 and an I-10K 93' up.

I talked to a couple of local guys that have had 4 element ~16' booms and ~30'+ boom 6 elements and they say its a noticable difference on transmit and receive so I have a M-106C on the way with a 5KW gamma match :) SHould have it up in a couple weeks.

I can talk skip just as well or better on my groundplane as the beam about 10% of the time. Skip stations seem to hold in better and put more signal on the beam 90% of the time. Some of them come up 4 or 5 S units when i go to the beam. With the polarity changing all around with skip its not...

I agree with you. I also have 2 kids to spend time with. I talk on the radio maybe 4-6 hrs/week. I got on 27.505 last night for 10 minutes and did my check in with the Bochas and turned it off! The only time I get carried away is when I get a new toy :)

Thanks guys! It took alot of work and $ but its fun. Worse part is my wife HATES this stuff! oh well

Sorry I used an old digial camera that takes terrible pics :( Anyhow here they are http://www.turbotimelounge.us/gallery/album70

I noticed about 1 S unit gain in transmit and receieve going from an IMAX to an I-10K mounted at the same location on the same day with less TVI also. The IMAX is much quicker to assemble and cheaper tho.

Thanks for all the opinions. I think I will hold off doing any changing and look for more replies especially from people that have done real world testing on these antennas.

I have it on a tower 85' to the boom and an I10K 8 feet above that so its pretty high up. I love my ground plane and thats keeping me from doing a full quad. Dont get me wrong it talks REALLY well because I am doing about 2kw bird through it but I'm like everyone else just looking for a little...