On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:57:07 -0500, Vinnie S. wrote:

On 15 Nov 2005 23:07:05 GMT, Steveo wrote:


Cool, are you going to ground mount that hustler or elevate it? Radials?
I've always been curious as to how well those things work when they are
so close to the ground.

Hey Enzo, did you get it all hooked up yet?


Mounting (ground mount with 3 radials on 20-40-80M) the antenna was easy. Tuning
is was a bitch. I missed the portion of the directions on tuning the antenna,
because it was poorly placed. Almost hidden-like. Anyway, I tuned it backwards
80M and down. I got it pretty close. Then the next day, I tuned it 10M and up.
All was fine except for 20M, which was about 2.0 across the band. So I called up
Hustler-Newtronics, and the tech immediately sent me a 20M calibration sheet.
Worked like a charm. I have all the bands well under 2, and 80M is 1.2 at the
center General frequency, and I get about 80Khz bandwidth before my SWR goes to
3.0. That is excellent for 80M.

Also, for the price of $170, the construction is rock solid. If I were to build
my own antenna like this, it just wouldn't come out as good.


Steve, one other thing. You asked about ground mount. Seems that ground mount is
fine for the lower freq like 20-40-80. But I compared it to my Imax on 10M, and
the Imax blew it away for local. Of course, the Imax is about 36 feet off the
ground.

Vinnie S.

Vinnie S. wrote:
Steve, one other thing. You asked about ground mount. Seems that ground
mount is fine for the lower freq like 20-40-80. But I compared it to my
Imax on 10M, and the Imax blew it away for local. Of course, the Imax is
about 36 feet off the ground.

Vinnie S.

I've seen quite a few of those ground mounted deals over the years so they
must work ok down there. That's a neat antenna.