John:
How do you support it at the center, or is that not required?
Just thinking about my situation here, and ease or difficulty of
installation.
Tom Behler; KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: Cobra antennas
> The cobra ultralite has 2 or 3 versions, I've used the Sr. which is 140
> feet
> long and loved it, I really wish I had room for it here but I don't. The
> Jr.
> is the same thing but shorter, I forget by how much and doesn't cover 160,
> it covers through 80 and I'd imagine works great. I do know a couple
> people
> running them and they like them, it's a little pricier than some but if I
> had the money I'd probably try the shorter one here based on how much I
> liked the big one. It's fed with ladder line and you really can't shorten
> the ladder line by much, a little won't hurt but you have to make figure
> 8's
> if the ladder line is too long. I think it's 70 feet of ladder line which
> would be another issue where I am now but I ran that in almost to the
> radio
> where I used to live and that's so far the best antenna I've ever used. I
> can't see why the shorter one wouldn't be just as good for what it does. I
> had one, a friend of mine who turned me on to them actually has 2 up, one
> pointing north and south, one going east to west, a friend who helped me
> put
> mine up went out and bought one because he liked it and he's very happy
> with
> it, and I know of several others running them. So far I've only heard of
> one
> breaking and that was installer's error, they are well made and really
> perform, I even did an A/B test with my old G5RV and it blew the G5RV away
> noticeably. I can't say enough good things about it.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:22 PM
> Subject: Cobra antennas
>
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Please forgive me, since I know this antenna has been discussed on the
>> list
>> before in various forms. But, I am needing some basic info from the
>> perspective of someone who has actually used one.
>>
>> Here's the deal:
>>
>> As some of you know, for reasons I can't quite understand, I have been
>> having trouble getting my W8AMZ 80-meter half sloper to work well on 80
>> meters. The SWR's for most of the band are at least 3 or 4 to 1, except
>> for
>> about 100 KHZ between 3.850 and 3.950, where they are below 2.1 to 1.
>> Based on the better luck I'm having with the 160-meter sloper made by the
>> same company, I'm convinced that there is either something wrong with the
>> antenna, or something in my installation that is throwing things off.
>> Tom
>> (W8AMZ) himself has actually volunteered to come to my home QTH sometime
>> to
>> try to assess things. He is about an hour and a half from me, so it's a
>> trip that will have to be planned by him when he has the free time.
>>
>> Since I'm not sure when that trip will occur, I'm thinking about other
>> alternative antennas that might be easily put up and relatively
>> inexpensive. I don't have a lot of room to put up another antenna, but I
>> probably could handle an antenna that was approximately 100 feet in
>> length.
>> Again, my main band of concern is 80 meters.
>>
>> I believe that some folks on here have used an antenna called the Cobra,
>> or
>> Cobra Lite. If you have used this antenna, could you please describe it
>> to
>> me, tell me how you put it up, state any special installation
>> considerations
>> I might need to take into account, and tell me whether it worked well on
>> 80
>> meters?
>>
>> I am not sure of the price of that type of antenna, but I'm sure I could
>> get
>> that info from the Cobra web site via a google search.
>>
>> I simply don't want to spend money on yet another antenna, unless I have
>> some assurance from someone who has actually used it, that the antenna
>> might
>> be a good alternative for me.
>>
>> Thanks, and 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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