With any of these Antennas you need Radials. You may not be able to lay
them out in a long line, but you will need them anyway. The real reason I
like the Super Antenna is because it is so light and so easy to set up, and
it is not that expensive.
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From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:39 PM
Subject: Fwd: Worst Case
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>> From: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 22 November, 2012 11:06:14 PM NST
>> To: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Worst Case
>>
>> Hi All:
>>
>> Let me extend a happy thanks giving to all in the United States.
>> As my antenna research continues, If permitted, I might as well get a
>> Hustler 4BTV, mount it on my tripod, keeping it high enough that the base
>> of the antenna will clear the railing, how bad would it really be with
>> out putting out a field of radials?
>> I think it might play better than some of the portables I'm considering.
>> The Hy-gains I'm looking at are 18 feet tall while the 4BTV is 21.5. The
>> cost is vary similar as well, 220CAN plus a 13% sales tax and about 50 or
>> 60 for shipping for the 4BTV and Hy-gains. The properly outfitted
>> portables I'm looking at will equal the 4BTV by the time it goes on the
>> air. Sure I won't be able to take it down each time but maybe the Land
>> Lord won't have a problem with it as long as its not in his way and
>> nothing clamped to wooden railings or holes drilled in bedroom walls and
>> such.
>> I'd mount it on my home brewed tripod and bungy cord the pod to the side
>> of the railing inside the stairwell, with the feet resting on the
>> concrete floor.
>> I think the idea here is to get the best compromised antenna. I like the
>> Outreach and tripod setup but would be talking almost 500 bucks Canadian
>> by the time I got it. I like the Hustler Mobile resonators option but
>> again equaling the 4BTV by the time I got it.
>> Then there's the manual band change, swapping of resonators and narrow
>> bandwidth. The motorized screwdrivers aren't cheap either and as for the
>> Hy-gains, there's the manual band change, facilitated by an alligator
>> clipped wire, moving from tap to tap.
>> Super Antenna, doesn't look like there's a contact info on the site and
>> Vern's email address on QRZ is a dead end. So there we go. Waiting on a
>> response from MFJ regarding the Hygains, after all that's who owns and
>> produces the product. If don't get an answer, they might be out as well.
>> I don't like to deal with a company I can't communicate with unless it
>> costs me 20 bucks a phone call.
>>
>> 73:
>>
>> Michael DE VO1AX
>>
>>
>>
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