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  1. Meglotron

    Base Looking for an unobtrusive base station antenna

    You never know what might bring sopmeone back out of hiding
  2. Meglotron

    Base TRAM 1498

    Sorry to here it. so what do you replace it with?
  3. Meglotron

    Base Looking for an unobtrusive base station antenna

    I'm kinda wonderinhg what you ended up with
  4. Meglotron

    Hey JT, I'm curious what channel you frequent and what's your handle so I'll know it's you if I...

    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? meglotron g mail
  5. Meglotron

    Base TRAM 1498

    How abouot an update
  6. Meglotron

    sirio Performer 5000 swr problem

    Let us know if it helped
  7. Meglotron

    CB base station antenna question

    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.
  8. Meglotron

    CB base station antenna question

    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...
  9. Meglotron

    CB base station antenna question

    if you have 9 feet going up and 9 feet going out as radials then you got a 1/4 wave but when the radials bend down isnt that a 1/2 wave?
  10. Meglotron

    CB base station antenna question

    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
  11. Meglotron

    Isolate A99 Antenna from Mast Pipe

    i dont see a half wave as a groundplain but you can read online about it only needing short radials if any, like 2 feet is all but yes isolated
  12. Meglotron

    Base Looking for an unobtrusive base station antenna

    lol, thats because they are in effingham, illinois
  13. Meglotron

    POLL: Monkey Made or Predator 10k?

    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...
  14. Meglotron

    Any Astro Plane Fans ?

    is fence rail actualy strong enough to support an antenna?
  15. Meglotron

    Base TRAM 1498

    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
  16. Meglotron

    Dang rabbits - Coax repair

    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
  17. Meglotron

    Dang rabbits - Coax repair

    well theres the problem, your coax is upside down
  18. Meglotron

    Dang rabbits - Coax repair

    so if i nuke em, what wattage?
  19. Meglotron

    Dang rabbits - Coax repair

    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.