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Great you are going to sort this 222 but I am glad I have not got one for mobile static now.:eek: seems like it would be a right hassle putting that up and down. Then again I suppose once you have it right you could mark it up. I think it is a hard one for a temp station nonetheless. (PS I...

It would be nice to set up as a coastal station, you definitely want a good F2 layer charge though otherwise you will be talking to seaside locals all day and that would be it ! I might have a look for a nice spot round the coast and have a windy grim winters day out freezing my gooleys off. I...

I think my long line of sight contacts, as might be imagined come down to station height. When someone is at a similar height AGL (ASL) 100 miles seems to be no problem. I can speak to someone 30 miles away on 0.25 Watts and he is at sea level (with either the GM or MAX2000).(y) The only thing...

Wow that looks huge ! Great installation, the cone part looks much, much bigger in your photos compared to the Sirio instruction guide. With a SWR like that I don't think you need to change much. Sirio's instructions are accurate in my experience, why wouldn't they be? They have some very...

Thanks, yes it really is very easy. Many people said it would be a major hassle and break and I could understand that initially. I wanted to get what was anecdotally reported as the best vertical. Over the months I adjusted how I set it up trying different things and now this antenna can be put...

Get a 1/2 wave basic silver rod and put it pole and clamp it to your vehicle it will work better for sure.

In think you are right after taking a closer look I suspect putting it together each time would be a hassle and it sure looks BIG ! If ever there was a case for a IMAX2000 GPK (I have an IMAX here) I think a ground mount set up is it. That might be on the cards.. if I go ahead with the idea...

Thanks Bob, is the cone set up part of a circular ground plane radial system ?

After all I wrote about the 1/2 wavelength pole being optimum today I spoke 6,000 miles with a cheap 1/2 wave silver rod at 4 feet from the ground (just showing my father how it all works).... boom! S-9 into South Africa to another station (JayJay) using a vertical. Other days with the same...

I post here as I suspect amateurs will have greater knowledge about ground mounting performance... when I say ground mounting I mean 4 feet from the ground on a single small pole: What antenna would you choose from the following and due to which technical principle.? Sirio 2016 Vector4000...

For all the stacking odds in ones favour, there is nothing quite like putting a basic 1/2 wave antenna up at a height of 4 feet from the ground (a mere 100 feet above sea level) in 5 mins, shouting out and getting into the USA, S.Africa (6,000 miles) and Greece all within 20mins or so. I know...

If there is one thing I feel I have learnt for myself in practice over the last 6 months is that with lower to moderate F2 long haul skip levels, is that whatever the antenna the starting magic height for 11M is 18-20 feet. (6M) This seems to make most antennas start working significantly...

Today I hung around .385 LSB after a buddy 26CT331 (John) told me to get down there.... and caught the crazy wide opening to the East/S.East Coast spoke to the following numbers... You 2 division messed my log book up ! It was all too much so details got a bit shady...... Unit 239 South East...

Gain Master producing gain today, filled my boots ! 9 Division station super weak so could not carry on the contact I did try though. 191AT-DX Swaziland 8-13-AT-105 Peru 59RC-DX Dodecanese 110FB015 Cyprus 173UR-AF16 Reunion Island - Indian Ocean. 26CT1685 (UK long distance 135miles) 44RAD002...

I have ditched the radials. I popped out for a bit to check them and they looked ridiculous. Symmetrical.. pffft that's a joke, my home made ones are a monstrosity. The Solarcon ones are not going to work for me either. They would suit home base no problems and maybe the occasional activation...

Well current state is I now have slightly more manageable home made 6ft radials bolted on the bottom (same length as the Solarcon GPK ones). I am going to give it another go. I will never be able to keep them perfectly straight, solid core copper wire just does not allow for that. The original...

This is exactly why I don't bother DXing from the home QTH. I have normally S4-S5 noise and sometimes S9 of pure, thick HISS when someone close turn something on it completely blocks the radio out. I gave up at home. :( But on the up side I see the countryside more often and get some fresh...

Cool, radio makes the world small (y) What I lose in my cheap radio RX I make up in the height up hills and low noise level. (generally speaking) I do get something along the lines of arc welding interference at one QTH but on the whole I chose fairly quiet locations. Again height is the one...

That makes sense. At the moment my longest surface to surface (line of sight) contact without any known tropo lift or Sporadic E (I checked the forecast and there was none forecast and the signal from this guy was uniformly extremely weak and a similar hard copy for him to RX myself) was approx...