On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:08:51 -0500, Buther Boy wrote:

What is everybody running (asked and answered a million times, I'm
sure...)?


At home, I have a Uniden Grant LT barefoot for CB, and Icom 746 for ham, and an
Imax-2000. I can only get 10-17 meters on my Imax, so I need another antenna
doe 20-40-80. And in my car I have a HR-2510 and a Wilson 1000.

Vinnie S.

Buther Boy schrieb:

What is everybody running (asked and answered a million times, I'm
sure...)?



What about yourself?

I use a President George. At home and in my car.
At home I use a homebrew FD4-like antenna with some additional wires in
the attic 6th floor.
I also use it for SWLing with my NRD-525 and PCR-1000
On fielddays I use a Blizzard 2700 (5/8L with radials) on a 50' mast
and/ or
a A99 (1/2L no radials) on a 20' mast.
A HB9CV for 11mtrs is waiting to be mounted on a rotor
On my car I use different antennas
A base loaded 1/4L stainless steel whip (4') or
a Firestick FGT-6 (6') or
a top loaded 1/4L DV27S (4' 4") or
a 1/4L DV27L (8'10")

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:08:42 +0200, Volker Tonn
wrote:

Buther Boy schrieb:

What is everybody running (asked and answered a million times, I'm
sure...)?



What about yourself?


I use an Icom 706MKIIG in the car with a Wilson Antenna (can't
remember the specs here). The Icom has been modified for 11 meters,
of course, but it goes many, many more places. However, I am blocked
by the fact that I only have an 11 meter antenna.

Any how, the setup is great when I use it, which is not very much.
Someday, maybe soon, I would like to figure out how to make an antenna
work in my attic...or get permission to erect an outdoor one.

How much better or worse does your attic antenna work as compared to
an outdoor antenna?

Buther Boy

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Buther Boy schrieb:


I use an Icom 706MKIIG in the car with a Wilson Antenna (can't
remember the specs here). The Icom has been modified for 11 meters,
of course, but it goes many, many more places. However, I am blocked
by the fact that I only have an 11 meter antenna.

This is a nice TRX.
I'm dreaming on a Yaesu FT897.....


Any how, the setup is great when I use it, which is not very much.
Someday, maybe soon, I would like to figure out how to make an antenna
work in my attic...or get permission to erect an outdoor one.

How much better or worse does your attic antenna work as compared to
an outdoor antenna?

I can't really compare on my site.
My antenna setup is somewhat directional and not vertikal. But it works
surprisingly good. One leg of my FD4 is cut to work on 11mtrs.
I live in a noisy environment as there is a hospital with lots of
electronics spreading QRN just a few meters away....
But I can reach almost all stations within 30miles or 50kilometers wich
covers the whole city of Berlin and surrounding areas.
But it is hardly possible to work DX. There are some rare catches from
UK and Italy in the last decade.

When I go to another place outside just two miles away using a vertkal
1/2L-Antenna I just double or triple the reach of the groundwave. DXing
is no problem then whenever conditions are good.
I can tell you that there is a *big* difference using a whip on the car
or just erect a 20ft mast with a 1/2L or a 5/8L antenna on it. Even
though you might receive in same quality your own signal will rise up to
3 S-units at the other station. I made this experience using the FGT-6
Firestick antenna on the car compared with a 1/2L antenna on a 15ft mast.

So if you ever have a chance to put an antenna on the roof top, get
this chance.
In very most cases any short whip outside the building mounted at the
same height will outperform any other antenna in the attic.
A 1/4L carbon fibre antenna (i.e.DV27L) on the roof top with 2or 3
hidden radials down in the attic will be nearly unvisible.

On a sunny day (Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:53:31 -0500) it happened Buther Boy
wrote in :

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:08:42 +0200, Volker Tonn
wrote:

Buther Boy schrieb:

What is everybody running (asked and answered a million times, I'm
sure...)?



What about yourself?


I use an Icom 706MKIIG in the car with a Wilson Antenna (can't
remember the specs here). The Icom has been modified for 11 meters,
of course, but it goes many, many more places. However, I am blocked
by the fact that I only have an 11 meter antenna.

Any how, the setup is great when I use it, which is not very much.
Someday, maybe soon, I would like to figure out how to make an antenna
work in my attic...or get permission to erect an outdoor one.

How much better or worse does your attic antenna work as compared to
an outdoor antenna?

Buther Boy
I have recently resurrected my old GPA (1/2 wave), it is on the barn away
from the house.
Extra thick coax.
Difference is like day and night.
Less interference from my computer stuff, a lot more stations.

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:08:51 -0500, Buther Boy wrote:

What is everybody running (asked and answered a million times, I'm
sure...)?

cobra 148 (old style)

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:05:22 -0400, me wrote:

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:08:51 -0500, Buther Boy wrote:

What is everybody running (asked and answered a million times, I'm
sure...)?

cobra 148 (old style)

and there it is...

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:08:50 -0400, me wrote:

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:05:22 -0400, me wrote:

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:08:51 -0500, Buther Boy wrote:

What is everybody running (asked and answered a million times, I'm
sure...)?

cobra 148 (old style)

and there it is...

doh! didn't work