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Kc8gpd
Junior Member
Username: Kc8gpd
Post Number: 18
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 1:19 pm: | 
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Now this is what i call a CB Base antenna!!!!!
Mr,Coily EXCALIBUR Base!
a bit pricey at $600.00, but still holy :0
anyone have one of these? he claims 2db over an imax 2000 and 10kW handling.
i'm wondering how well it works at stock cb power levels compared to an imax.
Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis
Universal Life Ministries (ULC)
http://www.ulc.org
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Maxgain
Member
Username: Maxgain
Post Number: 56
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 3:45 pm: |
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It is a 5/8 or .64 wave ( roughly the same thing ). You can only get about 2.5 to 3.0 db gain out of a 5/8 or .64 wave antenna.
( using a quarter wave ground plane as a comparative reference )
It appears to be very well made though. |
Kc8gpd
Junior Member
Username: Kc8gpd
Post Number: 19
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 4:46 pm: |
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I'd love to run some 1/2 inch heliax with that antenna 1 wavelength off the ground and my minty motorola CB-555 Base 
that would be a killer setup!!!
Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis
Universal Life Ministries (ULC)
http://www.ulc.org
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Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 4496
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 9:01 pm: |
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Insane CB Base Antenna!!!!.....not really. paid $59 for my maco v5/8 in the mid 80's. and i'd put money on the performance difference NOT BEING NOTICEABLE. if you wanna pay bucks for built like a tank, try an interceptor i10k. but then again, my $59 antenna has withstood 2 hurricanes, i don't know how many blizzards & ice storms, regular wind gusts topping 60 mph, and a lifetime of salt air as i am 1/4 mile from the atlantic ocean. coulda bought 10 maco's for the price of 1 coily....if i'd only known  |
Airplane1
Senior Member
Username: Airplane1
Post Number: 1187
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 8:46 am: |
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Same here, love my Maco v5/8, inexpensive and up now since 2003. survived 65+ gusts and ice. works great on 10 and 11 meters. it is a 5/8 just like the EXCALIBUR so I would bet the performance is same.
I am going to buy another just to keep for down the road before they get too expensive like every thing else now days. |
505
Junior Member
Username: 505
Post Number: 13
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 3:44 pm: |
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WELL FOR $600.00 HUNDRED DOLLAR I WILL GO WITH A SHOTING STAR BETTER RECEIVING AND BETTER OUTPUT YOU WILL HAVE MORE FUN |
Dale
Senior Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 1417
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:52 pm: |
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for 600.00 i could buy a maco 106c mount it
flatside.and shoot alot more dx
dale/a.k.a.hotrod
cef426
cvc#64
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Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4976
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 6:05 am: |
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For $600 I could think of many things to add to my shack .... but if it was me I would buy a maco 5/8 wave and use the 500 left over for a new tower .....
On 6 since 66
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