Re: "Miracle Whip" no, stop laughing
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That wasn't the question. The question is what kind of ground radials or ground plane would be needed with it? It's a vertical. It obviously works quite well with the car body as a ground plane system, and as I mentioned, someone used a chain link fence as the ground plane system.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 10:20 AM The Notorious Tre` < treii28@...> wrote: that sounds like the kind of thing I fire up my 3d printer to fix.? If you don't have one and can get me detailed pics and measurements, I might be able to chop something out for? you.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:18 AM Zack Widup < w9sz.zack@...> wrote: Do any of you have any experience with the W9UCW "Flying Saucer" antenna? I have one built, but have not been too excited about putting it up outside in the winter.
I asked Barry about how well it performs with a minimum of ground radials, but never heard back from him. The antenna can be used as a mobile antenna, but in one of his articles he shows one attached to a chain-link fence pole. If you have the 40 and 80 meter top hats installed on it for mobile use, you're bound to get some stares! They are large. The 160 meter top hat is huge.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 9:14 AM Marty Hartwell < mhartwe@...> wrote:
Hi
I still have mine in good working order. I have used mine to
contact from our old house in
Ohio to the outer banks island while they were do a IOTA
activation, back in 2003 right
after getting my first FT-817. I was using battery and 2 1/2
watts. Of course I think IOTA
maybe added a few watts of power in my favor. But I have used it
several times to allow reception
on my part so they are not completely valueless.
Marty kd8bj
PS, also I have added a pigtail out the bottom to add a counter
poise trailing wire or to just
lay out, or 4 20 foot wires spread out, helps a lot on transmit
too.
On 2/24/22 06:43, militaryoperator via
wrote:
I thought I'd see if my MW? worked on my IC-705.?
Noticed the plastic around the whip screw has all broken, a stupid
design, so wondered if anyone has re-boxed theirs in a small
diecast metal box? shouldn't really matter if the coil is inside a
metal enclosure, it doesn't radiate.
Or might just throw it in the bin, save time, hi.
Ben G4BXD
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