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Jerry Bryant
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:47 am: | 
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A long time ago I was going to purchase a ground radial kit for my Antron 99 but decided to experiment with a cheaper idea.I went to the local dollar store and bought 150 feet of #14 speaker wire for $3.oo and cut 6 pieces of copper wire at 10 feet apiece. I took a large piece of wire and wrapped it arround the metal just below the twin tuning rings at the bottom and slanted each wire almost horizontal and insulated each end.My antenna is 12 feet up off the ground and with the radials I didn't see not a bit of movement from my S.W.R. meter with 35 watts in.With this fix my SWR's are flat all across the 40 channel C.B. band. Not bad for $3.00.J.C.B. |
vernonott
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:37 pm: |
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How does it look Jerry?I like saving money but I also have a certain amount of pride when it comes to the appearance of my gear. |
Jerry Bryant
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2001 - 2:02 pm: |
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Vernonnott,it looks a little bit ugly and recently I added three more pieces and I definitely noticed a drastic reduction in ground noise.I have lots of trees here in Oakland Park,FL,and I have the radials attached with rope to close by trees insulated on the ends of course.I would like to here from others who experiment with Antron 99 improvements.I am planning for my next antenna an idea I gave one night to a local ham friend of mine to make a full wave ground plane. 73's. J.C.B.
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vernonott
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2001 - 2:51 pm: |
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Well Jerry : Maybe you can sell some of your inventive ideas to Solorcon and collect some royalties.Nothing ventured - nothing gained. |
Copper_Fan
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2001 - 11:13 pm: |
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well i have the same antenna with the GPK and i noticed the first day my noise level decreased but i finally started picking up Australia and further stations of such so i did notice quite a difference but then my freind bought a IMAX 2000 and it does just as good as my ANT99 but it dont need the GPK
i know its not much info but i just wanted to say i did notice a diff
also 1.2 SWR |
Len
| | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2001 - 10:35 pm: |
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Well ya see guys I had a T.V antenna on my mast. I just said what the hey I put my antron 99 right above it. It help and I have made some contacts Sidney Au, and Kona Hawaii, and some small town in Italy. I have taken my T.V antenna down and a imax 2000 went up. And the reception and D.Xing droped off. I don't like it I am going to put my T.V ant back up under my imax. And see if that helps. Oh S.W.R was a perfect match. Across all bands 24 mhz to 27 mhz. 73's take care #111 So. Minnesota land of 10,000 lakes or 1 million swamps depends on how you look at it. (LOL)Just look for a old T.V antenna does not look strange at all. Looks kinda normal. |
Copper_Fan
| | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2001 - 10:58 pm: |
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lol YOUR GROUND PLANE IS ALL THEM LAKES lol |
