My Go 2 Antenna | TN07's 80-6 Meters NO TUNER NEEDED!! HOA Antenna
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- My Go 2 Antenna | TN07's 80-6 Meters NO TUNER NEEDED!! HOA Antenna
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I was all ready to get one, as it is the perfect solution for my situation. Then I saw it was $500! Seems like an awful lot of money for what it actually is.
Its really bad antenna, do not buy it.
Likewise! Watched the video and thought “perfect, at last something I can use…”. Then I saw the price 😱
Yeah but it solves a problem. It's certainly not the only antenna in that price range. There's a market for it and people are buying them.
based off of what?
You can build your own for a lot less money. A ground rod only 6-8" in the dirt is NOT a ground. It is only a temporary mounting point. A 50 ohm resistor would give you a perfect match on all bands. Radiating efficiency is what counts.
Very impressed with the antenna analyzer reading across the bands. Very amazed.
Read like a dummy liad.
Mike - Thank you for the review!! This solves a lot of problems. I really appreciate your evaluating it!
Glad it was helpful!
Nice antenna and it looks super simple for POTA. Great video Mike. Keep up the good work my brother!
It sets up in all of about 5 minutes. It's great.
Cool antenna, glad to see its as easy as it appears to setup and man great SWR across the bands.
yeah it really is magical for sure.
I deployed my Go 2 Antenna for the first time this evening. I measured SWRs 2.00 or less across all of the bands (usng a AA-230 Zoom) and had clear reception on the 40-m, 20-m and parts of the 17-m bands. Very impressive!
Congratulations. Take an Ohm meter and measure the resistance across the coaxual connector and report it back to us.
Oh cool, I've been considering this one for a while, looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Well you know them now.
Great kit mike. Love it.
Thanks 👍
Impressive antenna, thanks for another great video Mike.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Interesting and impressive antenna. It was neat to hear you work Rich and Suzanne from our club up here too.
It is really cool indeed!
Awesome video! I’ll look into buying one of these!
Good info and fun to watch. This one is a bit pricey. Thanks for putting this out.
Cool 😎 HOA Antenna kit! You gave me an idea 💡 Mike, will be experimenting with something similar that I own.
Nice. I’ll be curious to see what you come up with.
Man that honestly looks real great for portable work. Leave one in a camper. Park for the night, or day, or wherever. Hammer your stakes down, run coax, and enjoy the sounds of DX amid the feel of nature.
You just convinced me. I have a weird wedge shaped lot with power line problems along the back of the property. I can envision right where this antenna can go. Thanks for being the lab rat and the excellent videos you do. I am an ex-Ham (N0AVV General Class) studying for re-licensure after a 26 year hiatus. Trying to bone up for my technicians license test on May 13, 24.
Neat antenna there Mike. I like how it's quick and easy to setup. Definitely great for HOA use. 73
Less than 5 minutes if you're not filming multiple shots!
@@hamradiotube That’s pretty quick! 😂
super video, excellent stuff,cheers,MINT"
Thanks for sharing, this antenna is very interesting for me.
Thanks for watching.
He recalled all of the rods. I like that antenna
Sure did. It's nice to see a company that has great customer service and would do something like that. He's mailing out new slammers to everyone who bought the antenna.
Great video!! Hoping to get out and get to some parks for pota.
Go get em!
Super video Mike❗️
Thank you Mike
Awesome & thank you
Great review, really nice to see the SWR graphs! This could be a solution for me. 73
I hope it works out for you.
Thanks for the video
Thank You
According to HRCC, the stake insertion tool problem has been resolved. Bob at TN07 Engineering recalled all of the first gen tools, replacing them with a more robust tool. All new antennas ship with the new tool.
Man, what would I do without your reviews? Thanks a ton!
KJ7NUX
I'm not sure but I'm glad you're here. 73
Mike I use a piece of 1" galvanized pipe with a screw on cap to knock mine in. Works well. I wear gloves to keep from tearing my hands up.
Good idea. I may need to look into that.
Just a heads up your air conditioner condensate pan drain is clogged. That’s why the water is dripping on your windowsill. You might want to have that looked at.
lol, probably.
Good demo of the "My Go 2 Antenna". Looks like a pretty good performer. Way overpriced! Cool hearing your Dad on the air. 73!
It is a cool antenna. Not cheap at all though. Def nice to work my dad though. That's a rarity. Only worked him one other time.
Hi Mike, I'm new on Your Channel, thanks for Your videos. Good entertainment and a lot of useful information! What kind of analyzer are You using in the video? 73 from JO40en
Time saver during set up....clip the connector that goes on the lug on the transformer. Instead of an eye connector make it a "U" connector then all you have to do is loosen the screw and slip it under then snug it up. Hope this helps/makes sense.
I use a cg-3000 tuner, a 12m fibreglass pole, 12m wire up and 12m wire along the ground and I make excellent qsos with that setup- my farthest ever last october: central europe to chile - over 12000km with 80watt portable from a little hill nearby. bought the tuner used for 80bucks, pole and cable new for another 110 bucks (the pole was 100 quid but is worth it) so 190$ for a real dx chaser.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
For POTA or SOTA work a simple inexpensive end fed half wave antenna with one end tossed over a tree limb would be a good choice. A simple dipole would also be a good choice and would perform very well. Both easy to deploy and take down. Both easy to DIY and well under $100 including coax.
I've done one or two POTA activations in my day and yes, I absolutely love my EFHW antennas. However, this antenna was designed for those who can't use an antenna at home due to HOA's.
I would not exactly call an EFHW antenna "easy" to deploy. You would need to get the far end of the antenna quite high into the air, and that presents quite a challenge to me.
@@denelson83 Exactly! I'm 63, and fell and hurt my shoulder very badly at work several years ago, that required multiple surgeries. It's now probably 70% of what it once was, if that, and I realize that some people have even more difficult challenges that I do.
@@MyTube4Utoo But, I have decided to try out deploying one anyway. FWIW, I am only 39.
73 VE7NDE
@@denelson83 Good for you. 👍 Best of luck.
another fantastic video Mike thanks Jaison 73 from kb2uew
Thank you Alvaro. Always love to see your comments :)
The wire along the ground is the other half of the dipole setup. It will radiate a bit because the earth will attenuate the signal. Also it will radiate straight up.
Sorry if this was a review and not just an ad, you'd cut that thing open to see what's in it instead of repeating "its a secret".
So you have to cut something open and ruin the product to review how it performs? That doesn't make sense.
ThNHR TeamReplay for the win!
Fantastic
Yeah buddy
Looks very nice! I was thinking If one could come up with he transformer and two ground rods and the wire. You could fasten a 12 Meter spider beam to one ground rod to string up the vertical for the DIY'er. That sliding vertical is nice though.
I wish you had tried it on 11 meter as well just for the hello of it.
I met Bob and Laura at the Athen Hamfest and purchased one of his antenna. From my Valley, surrounded by mountains, I have been getting pretty good results.
Nice. Good to hear you're getting out with it.
Impressive! I might need an alibi to why I bought another antenna! …..great job on the review
Just tell her its been tucked away in the closed this whole time. She'll never know.
@@hamradiotube She does the same. Every once in awhile a find a shirt with a tag 🏷 still attached. Difference… I use my antennas 😉
Great video presentation. I have questions regarding the "mystery box", which is not patented. 😄
Oh, very nice antenna, any idea about transformer impedance at the whip base?
What kind of battery you usually use with your 891?
Regards
Wow I love the form factor of this antenna. The price? YIKES!! I didn't see that coming.
BTW--I see you ran it on 20. How is it doing on 40 and 80? These are normally my bands of choice.
Thanks Mike. (Fellow Micigander.) KM8RTY
Its a counterpoise.
Keep up the FUN work!
Well the creator of the antenna who personally handed it to me says otherwise. I'm gonna go with him. It's not connected to the shield, but the center of the coax.
If the 25' wire is connected to the center conductor as a radiating element it is providing capacitive matching. Terminating the 25' wire to earth ground makes it an LC matching circuit with earth ground termination it makes it similar to a rhombic or beverage antenna.
I was a little bit surprised that it didn't help with your local QRM at the home QTH. Low to the ground and grounded usually helps.
It might be interesting to model the antenna to see what Mr. Smith thinks is in the secret sauce. Its probably closer to 9:1 than 49:1.
Please do a follow-up after you've got a few hundred contects on it.
Keep working at FUN!
Hi Mike, thanks for the interesting video. That kit looks fairly well thought out and setup looks straight forward. This could be a partial solution for frustrated Hams that like to work the HF bands that live in HOAs or could be used for camping. I would imagine even in the most hyper HOA neighborhood, you could set this antenna up at night for a few hours, then take it down, leaving no antenna evidence.
My biggest gripe however is, given the (close to) resistive (near 50 ohm) match you are seeing on every band, to me this indicates you are transmitting into (most likely) a 6 dB attenuator. Therefore, the most power the antenna could possibly radiate is 25% of the input power, when the antenna is resonant. You never indicated which band you were on but, I assume the band selection would make a huge difference in the amount of power that actually gets radiated. Fortunately with HF, the propagation does most of the work so, the antenna (although not perfect), would be far better than nothing. I noticed the antenna was telescoping so, I assume using a specific length could be used for each band to optimize transmission. 73! AC8AQ.
Thanks Bill, yeah the main target for this antenna is those that live in an HOA. It wouldn't be my first choice for a POTA/portable activation but I thought that would be a great way to show how it gets out. I'm sure there is all kinds of transformation going on inside the magic box but it works, and it solves a problem. I think I was on 20 and 40 in this video. You don't need to adjust the whip either, which is nice. It has resonance on all the bands just the way it is.
This device shunts power to ground. This is why it doesn't get hot. Radiation resistance on low bands will be very low. The "zero" reactance shown on the analyzer is an indicator of massive losses. Is it fraudulent? That depends on the language used to advertise it. It's not a "fake" device, but the manufacturer should absolutety not make the device impregnable and refuse to disclose the "matching" scheme , which appears to be a shunt feed with distributed capacitance. It is obviously a useful aerial, but $500 is ROBBERY.
@@hamradiotube Even though Ham radio enthusiasts spend heaps of money on quality equipment, do you think the antenna setup is worth $500? Looks good and practical, and impressive, ease of assembly in no time, though for convenience. I am not a ham operator but did make a couple of portable antennas for my Sangean ATS 505. Does the job bringing in stations I've never heard of before...so that is an adventure...I admire all you Hams with all the equipment you use.
good analysis! “6dB attenuator” 😊 Looks like this is center-fed, has 2-elements, is L shaped antenna … the vertical whip is what it says it is, and the horizonal “wire NVIS element” is a bit like a Beverage Antenna. That’d help it receive fairly clearly, right? 🤔 interesting. I maybe *want* one of these? but only for listening. 😂 and I’d just build it.
What I want to know is how it works. Usually antennas that cover all bands with a tiny "matching" unit means there is a 50 ohm resistor in that little matching device. I will not even consider something like this if the manufacturer will not explain how it works.
No clue. You’d have to ask the manufacture about that. I do know that it does work as this video shows.
An incredible flat SWR means two things > 1. High losses of system, 2. Low efficiency of system. So I prefer to stay away from these antennas. Anyway important think which was not mentioned in vid - they are asking $500 for this kit…hahahahahahahahaha hohohohohohoho …no way! Sorry mate. But thanks for nice vid!
Thanks for watching. While I don't know whats inside, I do know that I have made contacts with it. It's not the only portable antenna in that price range either.
love this
thanks
Looks promising and setup is a breeze but the price is high. Also what is it's propagation paths? How does it compare to your Little Tarheel? Their price is similar. I wonder how it compares to the Chameleon mpas kit?, Their Balun and antenna system is similar.
Good video. If you put the horizontal wire out where other people can come along, you should put some white safety tape or other visibility enhancers to keep people from using it as a trip wire.
It comes with some high viz tape for that, I just didn't use it.
that's a very well made system
Hello Mike, looking forward to getting you in my log.
How do you deal with the glare on that laptop?
1. You do have room for radials, as you have demonstrated. Additionally laying them around the perimeter of the foundation can be done. Every little bit helps. 2. What you have installed IS a radial/counterpoise. Glad it works for you!
Not really. One wire stretched across my small yard is hardly what I would call room for radials. I wish I had room to set up my DX Commander. That would be awesome. Also, the wire portion of this antenna is 100% not a counterpoise wire. It is part of the radiating element. It is connected to the center of the coax, not the shield. Either way, it has been working great for my in the front yard.
@@hamradiotube You show very explicitly at 3:24 that the wire is NOT connected to the center coax wire. The wire is in fact a counter-poise. Try jumping the wire to the vertical drive element and key up if you want to settle it. It will short the drive and shield right after the cheap 49:1 encased in epoxy.
Great video, Mike. What is the model number of the MFJ antenna analyzer you are using?
It’s the MFJ-223 but if you’re looking for an analyzer I would get the RIgExpert stick pro. It’s $10 less and does so much more. I did a video on it a month or so ago. I’m in love with it.
Hey Mike that’s a great looking antenna , It looks like the set up takes no time. Over 50 contacts at the park with the bands not in good shape I think you did excellent. Thanks for the video and the information. Stay safe.
WD5ENH
Steve
Nice Shirt!
The best!
We were watching the video, my wife had her checkbook out.... and then you had to say the "Karen" thing... lol. Her name is Karen.. she get's that a lot. LMAO - K1QS.
Haha, I have a cousin but she is spelled Caren lol! So long as she's not the HOA Karen she should be ok.
Great video. I wanted to try one of these since I am in a HOA. However, once I saw the price, No way.
Fascinating antenna. What was the ratio of the unun? 73
I think I need that!👍👍😎🇺🇸
you do
Ingenious calling it "My Go 2 Antenna", which everyone will think is their go to antenna. I really like the concept and hope to get one someday. But the price dude... aagh.
That is definitely a smart marketing ploy. I can't say I would ever consider purchasing it at that price point. I wouldn't mind trying to make a homebrew version though.
@@Blue-Collar-Radio I think the main value-add component is the match. I wonder what that costs by itself, and one could DIY the rest.
@@AD6DMDennis
Probably could do but no one will tell you what the matcher transformer is. 9:1 un/un?
Never mind the ground post driver device...Use a bloody big hammer!
Wow, you aren’t kidding about the price.
@@MauriatOttolink maybe Mike will sacrifice his so we can make our own 🤣
Definitely a HOA antenna that would get the job done!
I'm using it at home all the time and I'm not even in an HOA!
For what it is, the price of $500 is outrageous. 😯
Subscribed. Thanks for the content. de K4DRE
I like your review on this antenna.
Yes I would absolutely consider purchasing it;
but the $499 price tag was a bit of a shock.
Doesn't really matter though,
they are out of stock as of 01/09/2022.
Hey thanks so much, welcome to the channel! The price is a bit steep but for what it does, it solves a problem for a lot of people.
Great tutorial video.
I just subscribed. Where exactly can find the place to purchase it?
Thanks for the sub. Sorry for the month long delay in answering but there is a link in the description.
Nice video on the antenna. Got to check it out for use while RVING. Thanks! NM5SP 73
Glad it helped.
Make or buy a 49:1 unun. Balun Designs has a 200 watt for $60 or 1 kw for $95. Add about 62 ft of wire. Toss into a tree and you have a half wave end fed for 40-10 meters. A 6 ft counterpoise ( you can play with the length) and no tuner. EFHW antennas are dipoles and the only difference is they are fed at the end. Just be careful since the voltage is highest at the end points.
Phil
K1PJR
Yes you can, but that has nothing to do with the point of this video and antenna. It's for people who CAN'T put up a wire antenna because of HOA's.
@@hamradiotube A 28 ga. white or lite gray wire from an end fed will never be seen. A flag pole antenna with tuner will make this antenna look like a coat hanger, will get DX, will get through pile up's and will cost no more than this antenna and the one that replaces it because it's a lousy radiator. There are other antennas that will work far better. It still has a radial in the air. So do several other portable vertical antennas that will out perform this by many times. You have to compare and let the newby's know this is not their only answer. Come on Mike, you can do it !!! I have faith in you Brother ! P.S. I don't want a bird house on a short pole in my front yard, it would clash with my Pink Flamingo's....lol
Looks really cool, just wish it wasn't so expensive.
If you attach a wire to a lug and run it as you have i am pretty sure its a counterpoise for the antenna but i may be wrong
How does it hold up in weather? Can you leave it out or do you have to leave it in
Since the grounding wire makes the antenna directional, it would make that wire a counterpoise. I was wondering if the counterpoise wire were to be bent into a square shape around the base, would it be more omnidirectional?
It's not a counterpoise. It's part of the radiating element. And in my highly scientific test, I found that it was not really directional.
I wonder if it will work decent on 11 meters on the free band frequencies?
very cool
thanks
Hey, Mike! What’s your opinion regarding comparison on this antenna and the MPAS 2.0 system?
I've not used the MPAS 2.0 but they are really 2 completely different antennas with 2 totally different uses. The TN07 is designed primarily to be used at home as an HOA antenna. The MPAS is designed more for the portable operator to be taken out into the field and deployed in many different configurations.
Looking at a VNA graph with it's tight circle around 50ohm indicates that there is a resistor inside to keep the SWR low. That probably explains why it is only rated to 25W and why it is potted.
It can still be an OK antenna though, not a great but an OK one. As other has pointed out 500$ is a bit pricey.
73
SM7PNV
Well said !!! Are you old enough to remember the MAXCOM antenna scam??? Seems to be similar…
A dummy load is not an "OK" antenna.
@@fintronics it's probably not a dummy load but an antenna with a slight resistive load so will still radiate some of the power. This is just conjecture from my part anyway as I don't have the antenna, I just inferred it by looking at the VNA graph.
I've not made too many contacts on a dummy load. I have made contacts with this antenna however.
I'm sure there's all kinds of voodoo inside. Still gets out and I made contacts.
Is that whip the same as the MFJ 17 foot whip? I have used that on a tripod with 4 drooping 17 foot radials, as a 20M ground plane, that worked pretty well.
he prob doesn't get it from MFJ, but i have several from different companies and they are all exactly the same. I would guess the same manufacturer.
I like that thing.. I need to get me one.
Nice. It worked great for me.
Oh lawd. Is this the one you were using this week for POTA that we got a P2P? If so, Im looking forward to hearing my awkward radio voice. But you sounded really good with it. Nice signal into the Everglades. K4ABX.
If it was yesterday, no. Sunday or Monday yes. I cut all but a few qso’s from the video unfortunately. It would have been way too long for a review otherwise.
@@hamradiotube gotcha. Yeah it was Monday. Looking forward to the video. Looks like a very cool antenna.
@@_onthemike_ Wait, I just had to check. You definitely made it into this video. You had me in stitches! Good to work you buddy!
@@hamradiotube hahaha. Awesome! Wish I was recording cause I’m sure my face was ridiculous. Very cool making contact. Glad to have you in the log.
One contact beats no contacts good job from w3oj.
Oh I’ve made plenty of contacts with it. It works quite well.
I found my next antenna.
Hey Mike nice video. This looks like a possibility for BYOTA, my question is how long is that horizontal radiator wire?
The previous post by Dennis AD6DM has me curious/concerned a out the price, I need to go look it up. 73
It's not very long. 25' tops. Maybe a little shorter.
Thanks Mike, that is perfect for the space... 73
Great Video Mike, but the Price for this is Crazy. I mite add you dont need a tuner for a dummy load either
Lol that is true, but this antenna actually puts out RF.
That's a cool antenna
thanks.
how would this antenna work on a tower next to my house? The tower is 17 feet high. I would run the wire across my roof about 2-3 feet off the roof. I live in a manufactured home community. My house is 54x20 and my lot extends 7-10 feet on all sides from the house.
Does the "counterpoise" really need to be straight and taut? Or can it be bent to follow corners of a wall?
It's not a counterpoise. It's part of the radiating element. And yes, that is how it's designed to work. I don't know about it being able to go around corners. I suppose you could. It would prob just change the radiation pattern.
I just use a 100 ft flagpole with a big ATU and for distraction a tiny flag in it.
A 100’ flag pole??? That’s a big one indeed.
K6KTR, Tanks for the video. I'm always looking for a good, in-the-field, no tuner required antenna. Thanks!
Glad to help
nice job master
low SWR can also mean high loss. you should do a comparison between this antenna and any other one that you can take to the park.
That is true. I don't know enough about shunt fed antennas to really speculate why this antenna functions the way it does. Maybe I will take it out and compare against a couple other antennas. That's a good idea.
@@hamradiotube it would be very interesting to find out. i also imagine there might be some directionality to this antenna depending on which way the counterpoise or whatever that wire is goes. speaking of which, another fun experiment might be to add 3 more wires of similar length and connect them at the same terminal to essentially create 4 equally spaced radials and see what effect that might have. i'm not sure the copper rods are necessary, as i hear they provide poor ground at rf so i think they are mainly used for mounting, i'm not sure though.
3:51 gotdamn right it is!
The wire looks like a counterpoise to me, it is not connected to the threaded drive element. The shield connection surely has a connector on the transformer, which that wire seems to be connected to. If not a counterpoise, it could be an off-center fed vertical dipole with a horizontal ground plane. But I doubt it, it looks like a counterpoise.
Hey Mike, this looks similar to an alpha antenna product that has been out for a few years, Have you ever review any Alpha Antenna Stuff? Thanks..!
Love the alpha fmj 6-80m. Have worked the world on this antenna from my front porch. 73 ZS5TC
What's the Q on that antenna? Is low like an EFHW or high like a magnetic loop antenna?
Maybe you missed the part where I sweep every single band with the analyzer to show exactly that?? I’d suggest watching the video. The answer lies within.
How and what map program do you used to show paths to your contacts?
Its a part of the HAMRS program. www.hamrs.app
How would you set this up on a balcony?
I’ve seen this antenna briefly on a few TH-cam channels. Your video is the best by far I’ve seen describing it. However, what you’ve also shown me is that this is not an antenna that is easy to set up - at least not in the way that you would want for a home antenna. Going outside, pounding rods into the ground, and stringing up wires along the ground every time you want to use it sounds painful, especially in the winter. And because it sits on the ground, with the radiating element just inches off the ground, and tubes sticking out of the ground, you would have to take it down or mow around it constantly in a casual back-yard set up. God forbid some little kid runs in your yard, trips over wire and onto one of these copper pipes and impales themselves. The only way I can see this antenna of being useful on a day-to-day basis is if you can hide or disguise it so that you would never have to landscape around it or trip over the wire/pipes. I’m not somebody who usually freaks out at the cost of anything in this hobby, but I went on their webpage and saw they sell this thing for an obscene $500. That’s $500 for a whip, a wire, two small copper pipes and a transformer. My Cushcraft MA5b, a 2-element multi-band beam is cheaper than this. I would suggest that if you want an Antenna that is easy to set up, take down, move around, and put away which doesn’t require a tuner - get any of the commercial magnetic loops from MFJ, Alexloop, Chameleon, or Alpha. They are expensive, but not as expensive as this antenna. They are also probably going to be less efficient-especially on 40 and 20 m, but they are a much easier, safer, temporary/portable option than this. And other better cheaper alternative is simply getting a Buddipole and putting it on a tripod. You may have to invest in a small tuner, it’s still cheaper than this antenna. The best HOA Friendly Antenna, so long as you have a large enough yard and a tree, is an end-fed half wave for 40-20-15-10. Full size, no tuner, you can make one yourself or buy one from MFJ for $50. Of course, there are other manufacturers that offer a bit better quality in the $100-$200 range, but I’m doing fine with my $40 QRP (35 watt) from MFJ strung up horizontally at 50 ft. Lastly, if you want a cheap, effective option in a limited space environment, buy (Do not make, you’ll lose money) an LDG 9:1 unun In a beautifully made, weatherproof case for about $25, find any place to put up a 31-41 foot vertical or sloping wire and a 17’ Counterpoise wire you can tac into the ground with yard staples. Instantly, you have a multi band vertical antenna which on most of the bands will have an SWR between 1.9 and 5.0- but it can be easily tuned by any tuner to work all the HF bands; Plus the set up is super portable, as portable as an end-fed half wave, if you want to keep it portable. Again, great video, but I just see so many better options out there than this antenna at this price. Somebody needs to do a teardown of their matching system so that people can build this at home If they really want to use something like this. They are charging such an obscene amount of money For this product that they deserve competition.
They really deserve some credit for the r&d of truely designing a tunerless antenna. 2.0 or less, 80-6 is not just a good portable, but the permanent one, then have a lil field day selling up the 58 ft wire, 17 foot counterpoise, hanging it from trees and pieces of fence pipe that you can end the day by dissecting the lightening and wind catcher. And that thing would still need a tuner, providing loss on any gain, right at the feedpoint, unless you get an automatic tuner, which eats much more wattage and adds it to the Infra-Red band.
@@ERICtheLATE Any matching system has some loss, including theirs. End-fed half waves cut for 40 meters don't need tunes for 40m, 20m, 15m, or 10m; those cut for 80m can be tuned to include 17 ans 12 as well, They cost 50-75% less than this antenna, and are way more stealth and safe.
@@kd8opi The antenna does have the spanning and issues of any HF antenna. With HOA, this may save some from just ditching HF and just chatiing on the recliner with an HT on 2meter, 70cm or GMRS bands. Make a dipole out of coax, tack it to the wall, and you can hit that 100 mile radius, because some fancy homes are actually townhouses on skimpy lots.
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stop showing me crazy cool antennas !!!!! my wallet loves you hahahaha I want one
Looked through all your post for a link for your antenna analyzer
I don't see it what is it you using, look like a nice easy simple one
I love the antenna but I can't imagine what it costs 500 bucks
yeah its not cheap, but neither is the analyzer. Looks like its gone up a bit too. mfjenterprises.com/products/mfj-223?_pos=1&_sid=9aabb4162&_ss=r