The crappie pole is a little on the short side, but will fit into a PVC pipe as
you mention. When I travel I use a Fishing Rod holder to fit to a balcony
railing then a PVC pipe with the Crappie pole slid into that. I can tune 40
Meters and up with that setup (and a 35 Ft. counterpoise wire, which sometimes
ends up coiled, in the hotel sink!). The total length of the pole, PVC pipe and
rod holder, gets it up to around 16 - 17 Ft.
I'm very happy with the performance of the antenna built around the LDG
fiberglass push-up. It is too bad they dropped the line. That kind of stuff
always gets a bad name from people who don't know how antennas work. The guy at
the store was bad mouthing the thing while I was handing him the money! And, a
friend told me I wasted my money. Most of the guys here have seen my Beacon
Reports and I think it works as well as anything similar, and maybe a little
better. It was simple and cheap to make, although it took what seemed like
forever to get it to tune. It turned out 8 turns of #8 AWG, around a WD-40 can
(10 Meters), is what it took!
It sure is fun to chat about, in any case!
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: wkhibbert
To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 9:44 PM
Subject: [HFbeacons] Re: Fwd: Spots from Montana
Hi Dan. Keith here in Amherst.
Looking at your photo, and mentally comparing the antenna to the 5/8 10 meter
ground plane from W1FB years ago.
Aside from your caged radials instead of Doug's 1/2" EMT radials,
electrically they fit the same model. It's too bad that S9 & LDG dropped the
fiberglass verticals, but the design can be duplicated with fiberglass tubing
from MaxGain or DX Engineering.
A lighter duty version coulg be made from Cabella or Bass Pro telescoping
crappie poles and a PVC hub & support. My portable 1/2-wave is similar but not
base loade to an electrical 0.62-waves like yours. Look at the Hustler SF-2 2
meter 5/8 mobile antenna. Same idea as yours but scaled to 10 meters.
I have made cost-effective 5/8 base verticals on 2 meters & 223.5 mhz with
the Hustler verticals and salvaged TV antenna parts. They work fine and hold
up for years...
73, Keith, WB2VUO
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-------- Original message --------
From: Dan Mitten - WA3NFV <WA3NFV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2/18/17 20:36 (GMT-05:00)
To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HFbeacons] Re: Fwd: Spots from Montana
Yes.
However, the counterpoise wires don't look that good after last week's high
winds, but the antenna stayed up. It is a home brew affair, using an LDG
fiberglass pushup tuned at the base and fed with CATV coax.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: Dieter Pelz
To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 8:19 PM
Subject: [HFbeacons] Re: Fwd: Spots from Montana
Hi Dan
Interesting. Did you use the vertical antenna that is on your qrz.com page ?
73
Dieter, vk3ffb
On 19/02/2017 12:15, Dan Mitten - WA3NFV wrote:
Odd that no one else reported S.A.
I heard Brazilian stations for two or more hours here, today.
Some kind of contest was going on.
73,
Dan WA3NFV
----- Original Message -----
From: Dieter Pelz
To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 3:03 PM
Subject: [HFbeacons] Fwd: Spots from Montana
One more:
K6LLL 28203.5 kHz 429
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [HFbeacons] Spots from
Montana
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 07:00:23 +1100
From: Dieter Pelz <dpelz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
While using KiWisdr:
http://foxgulch.net:8073/
in Montana, I can hear the following 10m beacons:
WA6APQ/B 28244 kHz 529 Long Beach QSB
K6FRC 28300 kHz 319 Tracy hvy QSB
73
Dieter, VK3FFB
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