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Old February 12th 11, 05:18 AM
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Back in the 70's i had a colinear clr-2,very good antenna about 19' tall
with 3, 9' radials,excellent recieve and transmit,wish i could find
another one.
i had a starduster,good antenna, i didn't like the way it mounted,than
after that i got a shakespeare 18' fiberglass something like the
antron,lost a lot of signals compared to the starduster.also had a super
scanner by antenna specialist,it was 3 vertical elements, you rotate the
signal and not the antenna,not bad,but missed signals compared to the
other antennas. i always wanted to try the astro plane antenna, they
still make them.or the sirio, the one that looks like it's upside down.
the antenna i have now is the i max 2000.not bad i guess, i just want to
try something else.


Best omni antenna was homemade. I had bought a 1/4 wl ground plane and had
it up about 50 ft. I thought it was a good antenna until I was at my friends
house and he had a 5/8 closer to the ground that worked beter than mine. I
had seen a book at school that showed how to match a 5/8ths to coax usung a
coax stub. A homemade 5/8ths was put together using the ground plane for
parts. Antenna worked great for a few months and then it got really quiet. I
found the coax stub had got saturated with water. Replaced the coax stub
with an open wire stub and this worked well for a couple of more years until
I had mechanical problems with the stub. At this time it got replaced with a
coil wound on some acrylic rod that I had come by. Antenna is still in use
today, well it was a year ago last Christmas, by the neighbor I gave it to
in 1973. Nice thing about homemade antennas is they are easily repaired.
Antenna Specialists made an antenna called the super colinear for a short while. It was a 5/8 over a 1/4 wave design for 11 meters. It did not sell well because it was so large. But it was by far the best omni antenna made for CB. Several people I know made 11 meter extended double zepp antennas, and hung them vertically out of tall trees. A friend of mine here in Tampa has a vertical dipole hung from the tallest limb of a pine tree, and it works very well for him on 10/11 meters.
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