Maybe this will give some ideas of what to try :
http://www.antenna-to-go.com
Frank
Maybe this will give some ideas of what to try :
http://www.antenna-to-go.com
Frank
Neat website.
I always thought that this would be a good qrp antenna.
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Good mobile unit too.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I constructed a mobile antenna similar to that in the early 90's. If done right they're fairly good performers and easy to manipulate on and off their mounts.
Have you given any thought to moving the loading coil a bit higher up the mast - say, using an MO-2 or equivalent underneath it then incorporating a 3-4ft whip on top? The whips can be obtained as NOS surplus from Harbor Freight - they were OEM for a number of Chrysler products.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Firefox can't find the server at www.antenna-to-go.com.
I don't normally sell my antennas. I help anyone interested in building their own. But if someone HAS to have me build one, the little ones are around $65 plus shipping depending on the cost of parts. The big ones I have sold for $105 plus shipping. I do it for fun. The main reason I am not doing it as a business is my wife's health has been bad for years and the cost here to obtain any kind of business licenses and the other REQUIRED stuff cost about $400 or more to start. I am happy just experimenting and helping others.
That big antenna in the snowy weather looks like the HARRP antenna outside Fairbanks. Is it?
Frank
My mistake. I was under the impression you were trying to drum up a small business.
I thumbed through the MFJ catalog. Is that the 10" coil on the large version? It looks it. I was curious if that was all the coil needed for low band. I have to rework my 80m antenna which has a coil, of sorts and has good results on 80m. It is also louder on receive for the lower half of AMBCB and also works to receive, decently not great, on LW.
Last edited by KG4CGC; 09-15-2011 at 03:13 AM.