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Jimmy396
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 5:09 pm: | 
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Would like to know if anyone has put one up on a vent pipe on roof.The roof is flat if you have other ideas please let me Know.Maybe put one up with plywood with a tri pod with sand bags.Need help thnaks Jimmy |
de
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 6:30 pm: |
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Think telescopic pole. Say about 40 feet long.
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de |
288
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 7:14 pm: |
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What Every you do. Donot uses Sand Bags. I was thinking of using sand bags my self because were i lived they did not want to to attach anything to the house. But i Decide not to do that and like in 2 weeks i moved. Buy i Did buy the sandbags And like in 2 weeks they were Almost gone. They rotted away. Don't use sand bags.
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Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 8:01 pm: |
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Jimmy 396 , they sell a bracket at rat shack that will attache to the side of the house and supports the Big Stick, mine is in a tree, |
Grumpy8220
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 10:01 pm: |
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Jimmy396,
I had a Big Stick mounted on a vent pipe with a 15 foot mast for 20 years with out ever having any trouble. You can buy the brackets at Radio Shack, hope this helps! |
Jimmy396
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 9:08 am: |
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Thanks Guy's for the feed back .And thanks Grumpy how does your Big Stick perform. Jimmy |
Grumpy8220
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 11:12 am: |
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Jimmy396,
I am not running the Big Stick at this time but when I did it worked very well for me. RX and TX was good and after 20 years of weather conditions it was still in good shape.
I took it down when I moved and when I decided to put an antenna back up I bought a A99,and to be honest with you I liked the Big Stick better!
Just a note this was the regular Big Stick and not the Army Big Stick! |
Highlander
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 8:51 pm: |
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My big stick was a good antenna for me. They like to be up HIGH--when I raised it from about 25 feet to 40 feet, it made a HUGE difference. Good luck. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 9:17 am: |
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Oh,bigstick,I thought you meant a big stick,geez how dumm can I be? |
Jimmy396
| | Posted on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 5:25 pm: |
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Well have ABS up on PVC vent pipe on 4FT mast no problem .Gets out great well built its not going no where.SWR is 1.1 great.Go with this Antenna it performs great trust me,Just as good if not better than other vertical anttenna's. Thanks for info all Jimmy |
Simon
| | Posted on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 9:38 am: |
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Jimmy
I had an Antron A99 mounted on my vent pipe for 3 years with no problems - other than a friend in Oz telling me my signal stank hihi. Worked 80 countries on 10m with 5 w bewteen 99 and 2002. |
