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Top Gun, Crestview/Niceville. Are we locals? if so, just touching base with you.

Long-wire it is: Multi Strand, 10 gauge with insulation, 260 feet long at 8 feet above the ground. Hooked up to a Hallicrafters S-108..

Before I set up a 260 foot long wire across my back yard, would there be any advantage to using my MaCo 103C and a rotor for Short Wave reception? I would like the fact that I could turn to tune in a stronger signal reception. Would this work better than a long line? I guess I could do both an...

Yep, I am staying off of e-bay for a month.. Yapper does have a make offer button on his e-bay ad.. Yep, I am staying off of e-bay for a month.. (Oh, I missed your mentioning of the make offer button). You must have responded while I was typing..

Best wishes and best of luck. E-bay will give you good exposure. Own so many older radios, at some point we just have to say stop. Would love to have this radio, but sadly, it would have to be at half of what you are asking. If I did not have so many.. Never seem to want to part with any of...

Punxsutawney Phil.. Funny stories about Phil.. He got sued in 2014.. Lawyer sues groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, seeks death penalty for being dirty liar

It rained for a whole lotta time. Leave for work when it is dark and come home after dark, this tends to limit my week-days. My Girlfriend keeps me busy on my days off. Might be able to mail you the (brand new) 72 inch bottom section for experimentation and scrap.

Interesting.. I will have to try bending mine down. When mine sit straight out we have an OWL that loves to perch on top. He broke the top section which I had to replace. If I bend the top hat rods, the Owl will not have a place to perch. All will be well with the world.

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and the base coil handles the wind a whole lot better. The original Wilson 5000 center mounted and well grounded to the roof works extremely well.

I bought one that I figured was sufficient and it only cost 130.00.. Well, I have been reading about it. Bad Choice, but I did not keep the receipt, so I will have to use it. RCA looks good on the box, but not a good unit apparently. and it is $10.00 cheaper on-line...

Good News: Antenna has Arrived. Just got a message that its been delivered to my doorstep. Bad News: Next four days the forecast will be 100% rain.. Assembly will have to wait. By then we will have a new President, a new perspective, a new need to communicate. If anyone is with-in 100...

Stacking will give a 3db gain or one S unit increase, but there are downsides. Ahhh, I see W9cll already provided that information while I was typing.. The antenna is out for delivery as we speak.. Cannot wait to get home tonight and do an unboxing.

Marconi.. I do have the new HyGain Version and will find the time this week-end to do some measurements and report back.

Marconi, without pulling the antenna down and measuring, my best recollection is each of the four radials are 105" and the total OAL of the antenna is 272 inches.. I did tune the antenna with an MFJ-259B for 27.225, so there is probably an inch of play to the OAL, but this is what I remember...

Robb, thank you for your input. Hmm, I've hand built a few antennas and set up a few towers: Some of the projects included (J-Pole) 2 meter, 440. Several different types of TV antennas. Dual Long Wire, Shortwave antennas for a switchable North South and East West reception (Okay, technically...

Suppose you only have a base station and would like to maximize your antenna power. Suppose you only had access to six complete sets, unopened packs of Over the road truckers (18 wheelers) phased 48" 7/8 wave Mirror Mount antenna kits (enough to set up six, 18 wheelers with dual antennas)...

Tower is a work of art and yet is quite functional. Two Rohn 25G Standard tower sections are welded together side by side, three foot cemented into the ground and 12 feet up from the concrete five foot by five foot slab that was poured on the ground over the concrete that secures the "Twin"...

Road Squawker, Thank you for your input. Might try Horizontal for 3 months then change it to vertical and see what contacts are most common on each. Since my tower can tilt and crank, changing the polarity is a 10 min job.. Once I get it all figured out, you will see a write up on the...

Marconi, Thank you for the additional information.. This has been an eye opener for me, but since I have ordered the 103c, it will be my antenna until a hurricane removes it. Can't go wrong with the 103