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    i once had a penetrator i took off some old ladys roof for her cleaned it put it up at my place it was probably the best antenna ive ever had not counting beams

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    Quote Originally Posted by doughboy View Post
    i once had a penetrator i took off some old ladys roof for her cleaned it put it up at my place it was probably the best antenna ive ever had not counting beams
    quite similar to mine got it for 30 bucks took it down , cleaned it up rebuilt the matching hardware with 10guage hard copper , been up through 4 ice storms and 3 tornadoes during the last 16 years great antenna ! though my next antennas will be a MERLIN .........soon

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    Great antenna, easy hook up, good band width

    have for 4 years went from proton 99, now the imax 2000 with ground plane is great for the money. Have spoke all over the world with it, no splash if use right coax, ground and choke. Mine is about 250 feet above sea level and like it alot. Would only trade for sirio gainmaster heard was slightly better or a beam of course !!!
    RCI-2950DX, 1978 Cobra 148 GTL Taiwan, SHURE526T MIC, Tug-8 With Astatic 10 DA Head, Astatic 575M6, ASTRON 70/20 AMP POWER SUPPLIES, IMAX 2000 W GROUND PLANE KIT. TIMES MICROWAVE LMR-400 COAX, RF CHOKES. DIAMOND SWR/POWER INLINE METER. 250 of Sea Level Under Me. Recent World Radio Member.

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    RCI-2950DX, 1978 Cobra 148 GTL Taiwan, SHURE526T MIC, Tug-8 With Astatic 10 DA Head, Astatic 575M6, ASTRON 70/20 AMP POWER SUPPLIES, IMAX 2000 W GROUND PLANE KIT. TIMES MICROWAVE LMR-400 COAX, RF CHOKES. DIAMOND SWR/POWER INLINE METER. 250 of Sea Level Under Me. Recent World Radio Member.

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    RCI-2950DX, 1978 Cobra 148 GTL Taiwan, SHURE526T MIC, Tug-8 With Astatic 10 DA Head, Astatic 575M6, ASTRON 70/20 AMP POWER SUPPLIES, IMAX 2000 W GROUND PLANE KIT. TIMES MICROWAVE LMR-400 COAX, RF CHOKES. DIAMOND SWR/POWER INLINE METER. 250 of Sea Level Under Me. Recent World Radio Member.

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    My best friend in Texas does not cb anymore. He is shipping me the Hi Gain Penetrator 500 he used on his home in the early 1980's. I had the same antenna and parted with mine when I moved to Washington State. I will get it up eventually but for now am going to be using a 1/2 wave dipole just to get started. Hopefully my equipment will come in this coming week. I am excited to try the new Uniden Bearcat ssb

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    Would you be willing to share your info on the Crossbow? I just purchased one that has been in the air since the 80's. It was missing the top section and tophat. I've remedied that already. Going to clean it and put new hardware on it today.

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    I'm a big big fan of Solarcon Imax 2000. It has been recently rebranded Solarcon Max Optimizer. Though still widely referred as the former. When the apparently ample stockpile is depleted the new branded batch will become prevalently available the name familiarity with change. The PITA is extra shipping on these antennas. They sure are very easy to set up. I put mine up 1/2 wavelength off the ground, making it 560 abv MSL, and SWR was pre-tuned to 1.1:1 all through 27 MHz; didn't feel motivated to try for better. I did put a pin head size dot of hot-melt glue on the out edge of tuning ring and the poly threads of the tuning section. My first one was twisted into pretzel form after tropical storm winds thrashed it in the tree branches. Had it up about 7 years. At about mid point I took it down to find where perhaps my SWR increase was coming from and found the tuning rings had work their way southward.
    Imax 2000 is said to have 5.2 dBi gain.

    I have 2nd 11M antenna, a Sirio SD27 dipole, also 5/8 wavelength, which is normally erected as a omni-directional. I have mine functioning, experimentally, as a vertical Yagi, with a pair of 102" steel whips with 22" extender for a 18.83' reflector. Spacing between the two elements isn't optimal but still functional. Gain: 3.35 dBi Quite affordable; if you can manage a 30' mast.

    But what brings me here today primarily is an inquiry: Sirio Blizzard 2700 is the latest remake of the Siria 827. Sirio is big name is Europe. Seems Sirio isn't resting on its laurel when they renamed a repackaged 827, famed for it's performance, where upon they added a top-hat and blouse straightener and renamed it Blizzard 2700. The previous version is the Tornado 27, doesn't wear the top-hat. I take it the top-hat helps keep a portion of the signal from emitting towards the stars.

    I'm thinking about sending my brother one of these. It would work immeasurably better for his Idaho location; where winds on the Rocky Mtn front face are regularly quite brisk to near gale force winds. Where an Imax 2000 would be as bent left as D.C., if not far left, more often than not.

    Any Stateside users of the Sirio 827 or any of its variants?

    All answers are opinions and may, or may not be technically correct.

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