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Maxgain
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Username: Maxgain

Post Number: 16
Registered: 3-2007
Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 7:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anyone remember a base antenna called a "SKYKICKER" made by TURNER ?

It had a 12 foot vertical radiator and three 6 foot radials angled downward at about 45 degrees.

The radials wher electrically conected to the vertical radiator which was fed in a rather unusual way, I think by what resembled a gamma rod (but wasn't a gamma rod) , this rod about 3 feet in length, ran parralell to the vertical radiator near the bottom, and was connected by an adjustable shorting bar .
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Goat373
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Post Number: 341
Registered: 3-2005


Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 10:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

yes...i have also seen an aluminum version of this antenna made bt jo-gun i think, or maybe it was hy-gain, i cant remember
Brian
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Bruce
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Post Number: 4413
Registered: 9-2003


Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

also JC Pennys sold them I had one in the 70's it was a gama fed dipole.
On 6 since 66
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Road_warrior
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Post Number: 2079
Registered: 7-2004


Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 10:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I remember that antenna.

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RoadWarrior
CEF 375 PA
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Mrclean
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Post Number: 65
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 9:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I remember it. Have any of you ever saw the Turner antenna that works kind of like a superscanner. It looks like two three element beams running thru each other in a x pattern if that makes any sence with two oval deals in the center. My tech that just retired had one and it was the wildest looking antenna I ever saw. He said it worked real well

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