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It's been suggested to me that I replace my 102" whip with an 80-meter
HamStick.

Has anyone tried this. My whip performs great down to 17-meters, but
I've had trouble being heard on 20 and 40.

Any experiences/opinions?

Thanks,

ke5bsa

I use a 102 inch whip and the FC-40 on a Jeep
Wrangler. I get good reports down to the three top
channels of 60 meters. 40M is okay as well.

80M is out of the question with the 102 inch whip.
I have an 80M hamstick, but have not really tried as
yet to get it to tune there and above.

Larry-N7IBC

--- cbbatey1 <brianbatey@...> wrote:

It's been suggested to me that I replace my 102"
whip with an 80-meter
HamStick.

Has anyone tried this. My whip performs great down
to 17-meters, but
I've had trouble being heard on 20 and 40.

Any experiences/opinions?

Thanks,

ke5bsa

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It's been suggested to me that I replace my 102" whip with an 80-meter
HamStick.?

Has anyone tried this.? My whip performs great down to 17-meters, but
I've had trouble being heard on 20 and 40.

Any experiences/opinions?

Thanks,

ke5bsa

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That's really interesting. I'm running a 102" stainless whip and haven't had much luck on 20 and 40. 20 tunes up great, but 40 tends to spike high when I'm transmitting.

I've only been playing with this rig for a few days. I'm sure I haven't gotten rid of all the 'operator limitations.

Glad to hear that this rig can work so well. I know that thus far, I've been very impressed.

brianb

I just came back from a round trip from Florida to Wisconesin. On the way up I was ab
le to get into nets on 75, 40, 20 meters. On the way back I had a QSO with a ham in Boston and at the same time was able to chat with his brother in Texas. This was done on 20 meters in the morning. We had such good results that we tried the same on 15 and 17 meters. This time I only could QSO with the ham in Boston. This QSO lasted close to two hours. Note the "K" factor was 1 or less that day for some odd reason.

I use a fiberglass 102 inch whip off the back of the vehicle and only running 100 watts from the FT-857D.

As for the 75 and 40 meter contacts, they were fine with reports of 5/6 to 5/8.



cbbatey1 <brianbatey@...> wrote:
It's been suggested to me that I replace my 102" whip with an 80-meter
HamStick.

Has anyone tried this. My whip performs great down to 17-meters, but
I've had trouble being heard on 20 and 40.

Any experiences/opinions?

Thanks,

ke5bsa




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