Late last summer we had a very close lightning hit,now my SWR's are
high.Any way i can run some sort of test to see if the Antrton is
shotred out?

On 8 May 2005 17:34:14 -0700, "farmerjoe1" wrote:

Late last summer we had a very close lightning hit,now my SWR's are
high.Any way i can run some sort of test to see if the Antrton is
shotred out?

Nuke it and get the Imax 2000 or Maco.

Vinnie S.

Vinnie S. wrote:
On 8 May 2005 17:34:14 -0700, "farmerjoe1"
wrote:

Late last summer we had a very close lightning hit,now my SWR's are
high.Any way i can run some sort of test to see if the Antrton is
shotred out?

Nuke it and get the Imax 2000 or Maco.

Vinnie S.

Nuke all of those and get what I use for a ground plane.

http://www.a1antennas.com/

Heck, make a 2 element quad and you'll be way ahead of the game. Even
make your own ground plane, yagi. Cheap and much better gain. At
least 11dB or bettter than the A99

Antrons are junk, get a coathanger.

Cliff wrote:

Heck, make a 2 element quad and you'll be way ahead of the game. Even
make your own ground plane, yagi. Cheap and much better gain. At
least 11dB or bettter than the A99

That's dbi, right? Can we get a real life gain figure?
You can't build an isotropic antenna.

When compared to a stated db in a ground plane you should get at least
10db better with a 2 element quard. Go to:
http://www.signalengineering.com/ultimate/

and it will tell you all about it. Have made a 2 element quad on
3/8wave and have talked to Nova Scotia, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand
on a SBE Console II 23 ch am/usb/lsb radio with a std ceramic mic. My
design came from a ham operator in No.Ctrl Tx that runs over 2Kw on it
and goes wherever he wants, and almost makes his own skip.

But this is the way to go.

my cb friend made me an 2 element quad few years ago only 20 ft high
talking all over the place plus across the pond with an barefoot radio
73s

3/8 wave ant tell me more about it please that sounds better a mini quad
..

Thanks to all.