About 8 or 8 1/2ft.
Bob

Buck wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:40:50 GMT, Bob wrote:

Used various SGC tuners and Icom AH-4. Also tried both of SGCs dual
loaded whips with varying results. The longer two piece unit worked
surprisingly well 80-10m years ago when conditions were better, even had
some fantastic 160m mobile contacts with it. The single 7ft version
lacks on 40 and especially 80m compared to the two piece whip but
compared to an unloaded 102” CB whip, it makes the CB whip look like a
dummy load on 40m and below. This is all with an SGC-230 feeding them.
Bob

How long is the two piece whip?

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:49:31 GMT, Bob wrote:

About 8 or 8 1/2ft.
Bob

Buck wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:40:50 GMT, Bob wrote:

Used various SGC tuners and Icom AH-4. Also tried both of SGCs dual
loaded whips with varying results. The longer two piece unit worked
surprisingly well 80-10m years ago when conditions were better, even had
some fantastic 160m mobile contacts with it. The single 7ft version
lacks on 40 and especially 80m compared to the two piece whip but
compared to an unloaded 102” CB whip, it makes the CB whip look like a
dummy load on 40m and below. This is all with an SGC-230 feeding them.
Bob

How long is the two piece whip?
Is there more to the two-piece than just two pieces? Is it a loaded
fiberglass whip with a stinger, or two solid pieces of wire making up
one long stinger. If so, the cb whip is longer, if you have a loaded
section, the loaded section is longer.

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73 for now
Buck
N4PGW

I believe the SGC whip is continuously loaded with a tapered pitch over
a large diameter fiberglass core and also has a straight internal
shorter section for higher freqs. No top stinger, just big, thick, ugly
black heatshrink coated. I think it resonates around 13 and 22MHz. Look
up an SG-303 in Google.
Bob


Buck wrote:

How long is the two piece whip?
Is there more to the two-piece than just two pieces? Is it a loaded
fiberglass whip with a stinger, or two solid pieces of wire making up
one long stinger. If so, the cb whip is longer, if you have a loaded
section, the loaded section is longer.

Ok, That makes sense


That gives me an idea. I wonder what stacking my 20 meter base on top
of my 40 meter base would produce. I'll try that today. I did some
testing, see my followup in this thread.

Thanks
Buck


On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:55:45 GMT, Bob wrote:

I believe the SGC whip is continuously loaded with a tapered pitch over
a large diameter fiberglass core and also has a straight internal
shorter section for higher freqs. No top stinger, just big, thick, ugly
black heatshrink coated. I think it resonates around 13 and 22MHz. Look
up an SG-303 in Google.
Bob


Buck wrote:

How long is the two piece whip?
Is there more to the two-piece than just two pieces? Is it a loaded
fiberglass whip with a stinger, or two solid pieces of wire making up
one long stinger. If so, the cb whip is longer, if you have a loaded
section, the loaded section is longer.




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73 for now
Buck
N4PGW