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Jimmy396
Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 6:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Has anyone heard of it or used it and how did it perform ? THANKS JIMMY
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Galaxyraider
Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 8:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jimmy396: I am using one now as a standby in my loft. It is a half wave fiberglass with a specified gain of +2 dBi. My outside base stick is down from age and severe weather so I put one up in the loft.
It is a no ground Ant. and it surprised me on how well it recieves considering it's location, just under the peak "surrounded with shingle nails." With a good match at an average of 1.1 to 1.18 accross the band. It has good ears. It will not talk to far.
I use it locally and get up to 10 miles "As the crow flys" on about 6 watts. The real test will be when my Lincoln comes in and I push more RF into it.
If you follow the cable length intruction specified you get a good match. And it will handle a lot of power up to 500 watt pep.

As a temporary Ant. for emergencies it's out performing my old fiberglass truck stick that was up their.
I hooked up a temporary length of RG58/u to preserve my original RG8 for the new base stick I will put up.
One thing is for shure 37" and thicker than a broomstick it will survive a hurricane outside.
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bruce
Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 9:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I had one same thing but made by Midland ..... JUNK a rading dummy load its only good point would be if you needed to hid a ant as for how it worked best i could talk was a few miles at night
bruce

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