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Danusee
Member
Username: Danusee
Post Number: 51
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 7:45 pm: | 
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Lightning strike. Blowed it right off the tower. I don't think I will go back fiber glass. It ran in the house & got 3 surge protectors. Knock out my electic fence unit. Everything is replaced except I need a metal omni antenna. |
Kid_vicious
Senior Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 2262
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:30 pm: |
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wow!
glad everyone is OK.
was the antenna connected to the radio at the time?
how did the radio equip. fare?
you might think about getting a polyphaser with the new antenna.
matt |
Troublemaker
Intermediate Member
Username: Troublemaker
Post Number: 338
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:31 pm: |
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Maco 5/8  |
Starface
Advanced Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 889
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:58 pm: |
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Sorry to hear the lost but glad everyone in your home is ok..
73
Starface
CEF476 |
Chad
Senior Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 1214
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 10:36 pm: |
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Congrats! And by that I mean you actually fared pretty well all thngs considered.
Time for a Maco?
Chad |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 1510
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 12:29 am: |
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KV- If it 'ran in the house' as described, then he clearly did not have a Polyphaser. |
Chad
Senior Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 1217
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 9:10 am: |
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Polyphasor or not, there's still an EMP to deal with. I lost a bunch of stuff from ma-nauter taking it's vengance out on a tree. I did not have polyphasers, but, I digress...... I did not have a single antenna to attach it to either 
Chad |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 1512
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 10:15 am: |
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The EMP can be dealt with also. Check out the Polyphaser website. |
Chad
Senior Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 1218
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 11:01 am: |
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I always had good luck with their phone line and network protectors too, in fact that's how I learned of polyphaser, we were getting nic cards and phones knocked around at an alarming rate.
Nothing like dialing up the transmitter 30 miles away when you are off-line to find out the phone interface was nuked!
That had the tendency to make a grown man have a temper tantrum I DON't WANNA GOOOOOOOO!! It's COOLLLLLDDDDD OUT! Oh wait, you live in CA It's RRAAAIINNNY and MMUUDDDYYYY out, Is that better?
Chad |
Hollowpoint445
Senior Member
Username: Hollowpoint445
Post Number: 1412
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 11:04 am: |
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Did it look like those fiber optic lamps from the 70s? I saw one locally that was hit by lightning and it looked just like one. The owner kept it for a while just to show people. |
Kid_vicious
Senior Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 2269
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 6:30 pm: |
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paul, i was actually suggesting that he got one this time around.
im going to bite the bullet and get one myself.
seeing as how my antenna is now the tallest thing in the whole neighborhood. (the top one is now at 54' to the tip).
matt |
Danusee
Member
Username: Danusee
Post Number: 52
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 7:23 pm: |
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The radio was not connected. We had to go out of town for a few days and I disconnected the coax. What is a polyphasor and where does a person get one? |
Danusee
Member
Username: Danusee
Post Number: 53
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 7:41 pm: |
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Was thinking of trying a Wolfpoint .64 antenna.
Wonder how efficent the gamma match is on a omni? |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 12258
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 7:34 pm: |
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Danusee,
JUST CLICK on the LINKS Below.
Polyphaser - Lightning Arrestor » Review
Discussion of Polyphaser Review
Antenna Grounding
Hope this help's,
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9CEF
CVC#2 |
Duck246
Intermediate Member
Username: Duck246
Post Number: 127
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 9:15 pm: |
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he doesn't make cb antennas anymore Danusee |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 1513
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 11:42 am: |
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Chad- Been there, done that. You're right!
KV- Gotcha. |
Danusee
Member
Username: Danusee
Post Number: 54
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 7:41 pm: |
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Thanks for the post. Well I might go with the I10K. I never was much on the Maco v58. I rather have a A99 with a gpk and so I did. Just don't want to go back fiber glass this time. I will probably wait till spring. In the mean time I going to put my 2 meter antenna up top of the tower to see how it works there. |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 3368
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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danusee, i just spoke to eddie, & he told me as duck246 said-no more CB antennas, just broadcast. he ALSO told me that HIS antenna, as well as the v5/8, i*** & mr ***** all perform EXACTLY the same!!! he would not have recommended a working v5/8 to be replaced by any INCLUDING his own, as you would NOT notice any difference! when i told him about my re-shaped 20 year old v5/8 & that i was thinking about replacing it in the spring, he suggested, since he no longer makes the wolfpoint .64, that if i had $295-450 laying around, i should get a custom-made antenna. if i wanted to save some bucks for food, i should spend $10-20 & buy some new hardware, a good quality so-239 & a piece of wire & replace them on my maco. metal is metal, so tvi, static, etc should NOT be any different on my maco vs ANY other aluminum 5/8 (or.64) antenna, & as for performance-height, ground plane size & angle, obstructions, coax quality, ground quality, radio performance, etc are the ONLY things that could show 1 antenna performing better then another when they show the same exact readings on an antenna analyzer. he DID explain, that, YES, 1 could outperform another, even drastically, when SWR, shown on a meter, on both is 1.1:1, based on different reactance & resistance readings. owning & knowing how to use an analyzer are 2 different things.
so what am I going to do in the spring??? spend the $20, take my mfj259 outside & see what it says my rebuilt maco v5/8 is doing.  |
