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    For the Hammy's - a cool 6m Mobile antenna

    As a hambone, I like shooting skip on 6m. Im on a mission to make the worlds first WIDEBANDED affordable mobile 6m antenna. Yeah a 54" whip works great, hamsticks are ok but nothing on the market is wide banded and handles any power.

    anyway- here's a pic of it so far- its not complete and i have some tweaking to do, but im in the ballpark!Name:  6mant.jpg
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    How is your mission coming along so far, noisemaker? It's a noble mission and the pic looks good. Keep going and you'll get it! I applaud your efforts!

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    how do you plan to give it more usable bandwidth ? adding a tophat or simply making a good percentage of it a larger diameter ? what's in the pic looks very similar to a 10k with a 6 inch shaft minus a wrap or 2 on the coil . you might have better luck using a NMO mount and duplicating the matching system in a imax with the vertical shortened for the correct 1/2 or 5/8 wavelength for your frequency .

    keep us posted on your results . and that's some nice clean work on what you have

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    Thanks booty! Its a work in progress. I did make some different top and lower shafts to play around with things. I want to keep it 3/8 mount but i hear ya on the matching system. Problem with those is there is too much loss, but they do work well. Its all math. 6m ham sticks work great as 1/4 waves but are norrow as hell. Ill figure it out! Lol. Ill have to post pics of the newer pieces i made for it (shafts)

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    ive read many times that antennas are give and take . we try to get a little more in one area and we get a little less in another . in the spring i want to play with a simple open circuit 1/4 wgp vs one with a gamma (which is still OC) . i've often read proper matching systems have no humanly detectable loss , and i know from experience a bad implementation of one can be made .

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    Oh well. 6m antenna got put on hold agAin. Working with a friend that used to work for first rf, on some hf mobiles.

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    As it goes with most builds over here... For every one I start I have a closet full of almost changed history magic antennas that didn't live up to their expectation, haha...1/4 wave whips I've never messed up though too easy to measure and cut then mount...I am interested in your progress and testing of the final project though...looks nice.
    de 747 and I'm clear...

    "He who controls the electromagnetic spectrum controls the world..."

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