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RCI 2990
| | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 1:46 am: | 
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Heard a couple of guys one night talking about old antennas and one of them was talking about an antenna that he had in the 1970s.. It was a P 500 but it was called a "golden Penetrator 500" He said they only made a few and if you still have one they are rare! Said the antenna was copper golden colored (copper plated aluminum??) and it was supposedly corrosion resistant.
Anyone know of this antenna? ive never seen one and never heard of it until i heard those guys talking of it... |
Dx431
| | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 12:51 pm: |
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It was gold anodized to protect from corrossion and from salt, for people along the coast, the salt air will eat a regular allumanum ant and for conductivity. |
bluecanary25
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 8:05 pm: |
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I still have mine. Was gold colored until better-half helped clean it up when I was setting up: scrubbed the "gold" off!!! But when I put in the air, she talked!!
Was a great antenna. It's old and is retired. |
Kc0gxz
| | Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 11:54 pm: |
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bluecanary25
Lol.
I had to walk away from my computer after reading your post. I couldn't stop laughing for a while.
I pictured your wife out in the garage working real hard at scrubbing the gold off of your Penetrator 500. Did she do a good job?
Lol. That was a good one.
Jeff. |
307
| | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 8:01 am: |
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I have a friend who has a brand new one in the box , never used , I have been trying to get it...
307 |
bluecanary25
| | Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 11:53 pm: |
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Jeff,
She is a wonderful lady, but I bought this antenna before we met. She did not know it was supposed to have the gold color, she thought it had oxidized. While I dug a hole and poured the foundation for my tower, she used a scrub pad and put blisters on her fingers. Yes, she did a great job of getting the color off!
307, if you get that antenna, be careful for the thin aluminum "gamma match" at the base. Sorry, I don't know the name of that part. Best I can get to describe the part.
The removing of the color is a true fact, not a story to make you laff.. But glad it let you resonate.
73's again |
RCI 2990
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 3:03 pm: |
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I belive it called a beta Match. They break eaisly but can be fixed.. I had to fix mine after i bought it off a 18 year old kid for only 15.00 but the one i got is the regular P 500 though.. Good talking antenna though! |
Waverider
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 2:56 pm: |
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I had a Super Penetrator 500 back in "the day". Far and away the best ground plane I've ever had. I got to run a couple of crud tests with the Hy Gain against the Big Stick it was replacing. A real eye opener to be sure, the Hy gain kicked the Big Sticks butt much worse then I would have ever believed. I'll take a cut metal antenna any day. I was gonna put up an Alpha 5/8 but I'm kinda concerned about the water causing SWR problems.
73's |
Cm3885
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 12:58 am: |
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Gotta love those p 500s!!!
I have one in storage as well as a avanti sigma 5/8(ya know the one with the fiberglass middle section that breaks) and they both are in the same league i belive..... |
Bullet
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 12:11 am: |
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whats the deal with the 5/8th maco and the water making the swr go higher?
is there a easy fix to this. |
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