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Radio shack blue big stick antenna
- Thread starter rogodee
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Radio Shack , or properly, the Archer Crossbow 1/2 wave cb antenna 1980 something...
There's a thread here somewhere
I will look
73
Jeff
There's a thread here somewhere
I will look
73
Jeff
Yes if it is the Archer Bow Antenna?
Worked as well as an Antron-99.
I helped a friend install one when I was in college.
It worked really well for us. The only problem we had was getting it to read a low SWR.
People talk all the time about coax length and swr. When I would test it with my short, high grade Belden coax that was hand made fited by me it read low. When he would hook it up in shack to his much larger but much cheaper Radio Shack 100 foot length he could not get a safe swr reading.
The antenna was fine. The coax tested fine but when hooked up to his meters in shack returned absurd readings. I suggested he take the coax back and just let me build him some. Instead he listened to people on the radio and started to chop the coax down and kept soldering new conectors on it until it read good on his cheap SWR meter.
Now I tell you the above story because these where known by many IRL and online in usenet groups to have tunning issues and swr issues. I never saw it though myself because when I would hook up my gear and coax they always worked as they should. I suspect that it was always the radio shack 100feet pre-terminated coax that was at fault.
This was back in the 1990's and as the bird flys he was either 48 miles or 60 miles from me. He was initialy talking to be on a bone stock Cobra 40ch AM base with his Archer Bow Antenna 30' above the ground. I was in my old 4Runner sitting in my dormitory parking lot with am RCI2950 and single transistor amp and 102" SS whip antenna. There where a lot of nights where I only had audio no signal on the meter but he sounded just great. There was never a night that we where both on air and could not talk.
Like always when it comes to antennas "height makes might" !
Worked as well as an Antron-99.
I helped a friend install one when I was in college.
It worked really well for us. The only problem we had was getting it to read a low SWR.
People talk all the time about coax length and swr. When I would test it with my short, high grade Belden coax that was hand made fited by me it read low. When he would hook it up in shack to his much larger but much cheaper Radio Shack 100 foot length he could not get a safe swr reading.
The antenna was fine. The coax tested fine but when hooked up to his meters in shack returned absurd readings. I suggested he take the coax back and just let me build him some. Instead he listened to people on the radio and started to chop the coax down and kept soldering new conectors on it until it read good on his cheap SWR meter.
Now I tell you the above story because these where known by many IRL and online in usenet groups to have tunning issues and swr issues. I never saw it though myself because when I would hook up my gear and coax they always worked as they should. I suspect that it was always the radio shack 100feet pre-terminated coax that was at fault.
This was back in the 1990's and as the bird flys he was either 48 miles or 60 miles from me. He was initialy talking to be on a bone stock Cobra 40ch AM base with his Archer Bow Antenna 30' above the ground. I was in my old 4Runner sitting in my dormitory parking lot with am RCI2950 and single transistor amp and 102" SS whip antenna. There where a lot of nights where I only had audio no signal on the meter but he sounded just great. There was never a night that we where both on air and could not talk.
Like always when it comes to antennas "height makes might" !
I got one locally from a lady selling off her dad's stuff. When I hooked it up I had a bad match, so I decided to open up the bottom where the matching device is located. I found a wire broke off the coil. Also the cap looks toasty. Ill replace that woth with a better one. 
I also noticed the bottom section is aluminum covered in fiberglass. I put the matcher back into the base and put the antenna together and put it up 10 feet off the ground. Without replacing the toasted cap, im getting a 1.2 on ch 40 and a 1.7 on ch 1. Upon looking at the top section, it looks like someone cut or trimmed it to tune the upper channels..
Would you have better, more detailed photos of the matching transformer? The cap value?
