your base antennas story .

[BOOTY MONSTER]

isolated or grounded ?
with or with out ground radials ?
difference with added radials or radial kit ?
mounted on roof , side of house , tower ?
more than one antenna ?
guy material ?

seems theres are situations where each excells over the other . and each install will have its own unique conditions , as well as different antennas . just wondering what yalls performance with your grounding scheme and your antenna was like .

 

[Robb]

isolated or grounded ?
with or with out ground radials ?
difference with added radials or radial kit ?
mounted on roof , side of house , tower ?
more than one antenna ?
guy material ?

seems theres are situations where each excells over the other . and each install will have its own unique conditions , as well as different antennas . just wondering what yalls performance with your grounding scheme and your antenna was like .

isolated or grounded ? ISOLATED
with or with out ground radials ? WITHOUT RADIALS
difference with added radials or radial kit ? CAN'T SAY
mounted on roof , side of house , tower ? TOP OF FLAT 10FT GARAGE
more than one antenna ? ONE ANTENNA, SOON TO BE THREE
guy material ? DACRON

 

[Cajun Invader]

The Never Ending Story

That's how my tale goes. I was in the process of trying the isolation when mother nature isolated my antenna for me.

I was on a loner A99 until Marconi posted a thread about a water hole for drainage on the antenna so I had to pull it down to see if I clogged it or not. I did.

My Never Ending Story is about to take flight with a complete tale of an Obsessively Compulsive Trucker and his snake named Merlin as I provide a detailed account of this new adventure.

 

[Marconi]

Hey Cajun, I have a Wolf .64 that uses a similar feed point mount to feed the gamma match and Wolf covers the top of the mount where the wire goes in with a nice big glob of epoxy to help keep out the water.

Good pictures. Keep us posted on the Merlin when you get it up.

Don't trash the antenna. Let the A99 dry out, then check the SWR, it should be fine. The water won't hurt it unless maybe it has been trapped in there for a long time. Check the coax though, it may still have water in it. You may not notice an SWR problem with the coax, but if the water has damaged the shield then you might see some attentuation of signal, a very good SWR, an unusual broadband width, and a quiter RX than usual antenna.

 

[dgtr43]

Your base antenna story

How well does the Wolf .64 wave (base antenna) works?