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Skilletlicker
Intermediate Member
Username: Skilletlicker
Post Number: 147
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 3:34 pm: | 
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just saw a great buy on e bay anew anttron 99 for
49.50.copper price 37.50
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Bulldog369
Intermediate Member
Username: Bulldog369
Post Number: 104
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 12:35 pm: |
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don't you mean an anttron "splatter stick" 99?????lol |
Bullet
Intermediate Member
Username: Bullet
Post Number: 301
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 6:01 pm: |
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i run a pair of those and love them.
(splatter is not an antenna problem as much as it is a transmitter problem!)
i feel they work very well for a low cost antenna.
ive just bought 2 more of these the other day for 20 bucks. not bad.
im thinking seriously of phasing another pair with the pair i have up now.
i'll have about 40 bucks in 4 used antron 99's ive reconditioned and painted.
plus the co phase harnesses ive made. might be about 90 bucks in all for a four element colinear array with about 8-9 dbi gain.
this is similar to the real gain of a 2 element signal engineering quad or PDL2. but is omni directional instead of unidirection |
Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 167
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 6:40 pm: |
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i have used the same a99 for 10+years
and i have neaver had any complaints
from my neibors.
so i say radio splatter.dont knock the 99
for a splattering radios and amps |
Ryan
Member
Username: Ryan
Post Number: 90
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 9:14 pm: |
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i wouldnt pay 40-50 bucks for an antron. i know far too many people who have them sitting not in use because they either upgraded or went off air. ive gotten a few 99s for the price of $0 because of this |
Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 84
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 12:18 am: |
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iv used 5 diffrent radios on my a99 using mini8x brand new on a my meter pushing about 80% modulation and i still bother the people next door and thats even runing .4watt dead key swinging to 3 watts through a tvi filter!!!! when i had my old antenna up it never did that even with 9watt dead key swinging 40 watts modulation 100+ % |
Yankee
Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 89
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 2:21 am: |
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Say what you will, I run an I-Max 2000 with several different radios most of the time at 150 watts. I live in a mobile home park, and as yet no complaints. Most families here are either on cable or sattelite. My system is well grounded with an 8 foot copper clad steel rod. Compliments of the cable company, same rod the phone companies use. When I was running an Antron 99 I had complaints and that was before I was running power, other than my own home TVs I'm clean of TVI & RFI on telephones even cheap phones, friends it's all in the grounding, my ground wire is #12 copper wire. I bother my own because my TV antenna and sat. system is just under my I-Max2000. Yankee |
Radiodude
Intermediate Member
Username: Radiodude
Post Number: 401
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 7:33 am: |
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NOT the 99s fault!! crappy radios fault!!!! |
Pig040
Intermediate Member
Username: Pig040
Post Number: 368
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 10:47 am: |
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I used the 99, had constant problems with my neighbors, used the same antenna with numerous radios, still bled! Switched to a V 5/8 and never had a problem running the same radios and power as with the 99. The 99 is a good low cost 1/2 wave antenna, but it bleeds, and that is a fact. It has its uses, but it bleeds, and there is not one thing you can do about it. In this time when most people have cable there are not as many complaints, but I bled over phones, and one neighbor who didnt have cable I was in her tv, and yes it was properly installed, and I was using a filter, several in fact. |
Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 87
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 1:52 pm: |
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iv used a galaxy saturn, voyager, cobra 142, superstar 3900, cobra 19, rci 2950, and a ranger 696f and all on a good meter and all through a filter and still have bleeding. poor guy next door i go through his tv his computer his sattelite phones, all is grounded well never did it on any of the other antenna's i have had |
Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 168
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 3:00 pm: |
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well i live in a trailer park my neibors are about 50 feet away neaver! have i had a complaint
so bash the 99 all you wish.
ill shurly not get another antenna
with no complaints |
Bulldog369
Intermediate Member
Username: Bulldog369
Post Number: 105
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 6:55 pm: |
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well i think they are a splatter stick thats why i said it... i have a neighbor about 60 feet away. i have used 4 different radios.. they have all botherd her. i have everything ground. every radio that comes in here either to keep or to work on them they all get grounded to my inside ground rod an then outside to the other grding rod. i think these a99 are good for a cheap antenna but they are not very good for close by neighbors with the high rf they have. an i don't run heat all the time so it is not that. |
Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 169
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 7:12 pm: |
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oh well to each their own i guess what it boils down to is whateaver works 4 you |
Mdiver
Member
Username: Mdiver
Post Number: 72
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 8:27 pm: |
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Ok I have one two and have tried many radio's on it..I have made 4 contacts in the last 5 months on our CEF Sunday sing in, don't have a amp that works on side band but when I do run my amp I'm very pleased. the SWR's are flat brand new coax..Now for the rest of my contacts were on my moble no amp and a wilson 5000 ant.(think I will put a wilson on top my roof and give that a try.. |
Hawk1
Junior Member
Username: Hawk1
Post Number: 35
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 8:53 pm: |
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bulldog;;did you try a different antenna and did you have the same problem then?changing radios doest neccessarily mean its the 99..now if youy change antennas i think it would..hk |
Kb5lpa
Member
Username: Kb5lpa
Post Number: 165
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 11:18 pm: |
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I've owned 3 A-99's. Sold one when I moved into an apartment(no radio for 2 years). Sold the 2nd to a fellow ham for him to use with his HTX 10. The 3rd is in the air now. Zero problems with any of them. Never has it gotten into any rf sensitive component in my home or anyone elses for that matter. Ground everything, use low pass on the radio, high pass filter on the tv,vcr,etc. Toroid chokes on answering machines,telephones,etc. Quiet,very quiet. For the cost it cannot be neat. I've worked the world on this antenna running 100 watts or less on 10, 12,15, and 17 meters. 20 meters in a pinch through a tuner.
73 de KB5LPA |
Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 90
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 11:36 pm: |
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ya if u feel like buyng chockes and filters for every one around u that works... my antenna dont do any thing to my tv's phone's computer's but my neighbors house it trashes. |
Bulldog369
Intermediate Member
Username: Bulldog369
Post Number: 106
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 5:36 am: |
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i guess it must just be us in rhode island there 1616 that have problems. no hawk i have not tried a different antenna yet i am working on getting one now. an i do run lp filter on the radio an the rf chokes an the clamshell filter on the coax.. i have put in-line chokes on her phone, hp filter on her tv an it does not seem to work. |
Foxracing
Intermediate Member
Username: Foxracing
Post Number: 104
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 6:28 am: |
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I will tell you this.. I have a A-99 and have no problems... Whenever I run heat.. OTHERWISE IT DOES A BETTER JOB THAN THE BIG STICK..
fox |
Skilletlicker
Intermediate Member
Username: Skilletlicker
Post Number: 149
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 8:49 am: |
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i had the same problems with an i max 2000 as i do with a anttron 99 ,as long as i use no power i have no problems,what i was trying to bring out in the first post the difference between ebay and copper prices |
Ozzie
Intermediate Member
Username: Ozzie
Post Number: 175
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 9:07 am: |
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Funnily enough I give our stereo heck when using the B & W folded dipole (far side of the house to stereo) on 10m but nothing if I switch to the A-99 right above the stereo.
5 years and I have had no problems with the A-99 |
Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 93
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 9:39 am: |
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im starting to think it might just be a hit or miss on these.. im thinking maybe the guys making the a99 have a couple people working for thim that cant do a good job so some antenna's are worse then others and some are real good. and because they make the imax 2000 i wounder if thats why some people say there better then the a99 and some say there just as bad. just some of my late night thoughts |
Hawk1
Junior Member
Username: Hawk1
Post Number: 37
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 12:49 pm: |
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bulldog,,if your real close to someone it mite be front end overload,,probably the only thing that would work then would be to raise your antenna.. |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 329
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 1:20 pm: |
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I used to run a A99 and GPK and NEVER bothered anyone and that was running a radio with the(Oh my gosh!)limiter removed. Grounding is definetly the thing to do!!!!! |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 623
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 2:24 pm: |
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In my report I mentioned that in one of the A99's I cut open, the stranded center conductor of the coax cable was only wrapped around the bottom of the coil tap and not soldered, but on the second one I cut open the center conductor was wrapped and soldered well.
If your antenna is one that is not soldered,
you will surely create intermod interference the same as a loose aluminum antenna joint would. I believe it is an old mfg. date vs. a recently mfg. antenna.
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Bulldog369
Intermediate Member
Username: Bulldog369
Post Number: 107
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 5:07 pm: |
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hawk i have had my antenna up highprobably around 20-25 feet above her house... i must have one thats not soldered i guess. |
Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 171
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 5:36 pm: |
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well said tech833
you took the words right out of my mouth thanks for clearing up this matter.
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