Hi Jim;
I thought the flag pole idea was quite interesting particularily 
in that I have a large empty front yard but the back yard is 
useless because of wires going diagnally across.  Didn't like the 
flag pole price but the fact that it was self supporting was 
nice.  Talked with Tom and still don't really understand the 
tuning arrangement.  I have an external s g c tuner so that's not 
a problem.  Apparently they don't use traps or capasetors just 
some kind of transformer at the base.  Wonder what the story is 
with this magical transformer? It sounds to easy which bothers 
me.  Does yours work on 40 meters and how is the noise level? 
Also how much of a construction project was it? Tom seemed to say 
that you don't have to do anything particular with the antenna 
when setting it up to tune it.  As for those radials, what length 
did you use? I couldn't manage 32 feet but he said that 12 would 
work.  Any info would be interesting.
 in    richard
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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Shaffer <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:15:07 -0500
Subject: Re: antennas

Richard, I'm using a zerofive 29 foot vertical.  I have it ground 
mounted
with 4 radials.  It works fine for me, although it does require a 
tuner.
The tuner in my rig will tune it on almost all places except the 
low end of
6 meters and 40 meters.  I'm not sure if it'll tune it on 80 
either.  I use
an MFJ 993B external tuner that's able to tune it.
--
Jim, KE5AL

-----Original Message-----
From: richard fiorello
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: antennas

Hi;
Thought someone mentioned zero five antennas here a while back.
Wonder what type you are using? Had a chat with Tom but still
rather perplexed.
w b 2 h w a Richard
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