About 4 years ago I picked up 2 bottom sections of what I think were 11 meter ground planes. The section looks like the bottom section for a HyGain 18AVQ vertical or similar. The only difference is
Is there a choke between the ground plane and the center conductor? An ohm meter will confirm. Hygain was famous for that. 73, Jim w7ry _______________________________________________ _______________
Hi Jim, Most fitting that description that I have personally seen were 5/8 wave 11 meter antennas, or 0.64 wave which was common. I have never cut one open nor tried to repurpose it to another band,
Decades ago I had a 5/8WL (CB) ground plane by (I think) 'Antenna Specialists' and I am about 99% sure it included a matching "coil" under some plastic insulation (like a big tubular boot) to get the
As near as I can tell these were not HyGain verticals. The mount part looks similar to them. No, there is no choke anywhere.there is just the black plastic insulator that the vertical part goes throu
Author: Gene Smar via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 19:05:41 +0000 (UTC)
Jim WA7DUY: Are you attempting to get a ground-plane vertical operating as an elevated 1/4WL antenna using that base? Or are you ground-mounting the 20M element using the base just to hold the
As I said before. It's a choke. To provide a DC path to ground for static. 73, Jim. W7RY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mail
The antenna I modified did happen to be made by HyGain, if I remember correctly. Someone gifted it to me when I lived in Lincoln when I was in school. It was a long sucker, 5/8 wave on 11 meters. Fir
This is just the mounting base that I used. Then I used some aluminum tubing I had (swaged so they fit into each other and clamped). This was not a complete CB antenna. As I said, it was just the