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Hey JT, I'm curious what channel you frequent and what's your handle so I'll know it's you if I hear you on your new Astroplaine. I just go by my middle name ''Sheaffer'' and usaully listen or DX on L36 - L38.
I'm located near Ashland OR - You?
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but how much? is the tuning going to go sky hi? I doubt it will change more than maybe 5 or 10 channels and you can always tune the matching rings to fine tune it.
OK it's been a while, I know, but isn't 9' up plus 9' down 18 feet? and isn't 18' a 1/2 wave? Isn't splitting it from the coax in the middle a 1/2 wave dipole in the vertical?
So I still believe when you bend the 1/4 wave horizontal ground planes down you have made a 1/2 wave antenna from a 1/4...
i wonder if something like flexseal spray would stop that sprayed all around the base and coax conector. maybe yours was getting into the coax not the antenna.dont seem right theyd build an antenna to go up in swrs when it gets wet
when i want to cut through better i use my monkey made with the polished whip because it makes my transmision sound brighter but when someone has a high piched speaker i put the anodized black whip back on because it doesn't sound so brite.
so when theres cute sounding girls on the radio and i...
when i nmeasured my a99 it was less than 16.5 feet from the top of the mounting tube but the prototn was a full 18 feet over the mountuing tube and was stronger on transmit and receive and the a99 wasnt very old
i vote for that paint on rubber tape then shriknk tube over it, then a new connector on one end because you have to take it off to put the shrink tube on it
can i ask what brand is your coax? i read a post a couple years ago about a guy who had two0 cables laying on the ground side by each and the rodents always chewed one but not the other and one was bedlen and the other was lmr400 but i dont remember which they ate.
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