Hope you have good luck with your system. You sure put a lot of thought and effort into it . I installed a similar ant imax2000 and intended using it on 10m amateur band , sure it was a good tx performer, however i was very disappointed with the rx noise, 2 winters ago a storm did for it . The weak point appears to be the joint between the fiberglass and the metal joints. I am not sorry to say i miss it , i hated it . Hopefully you get good service from your install.
thank you, I've had it up for a year, just never got around to making a video.... it works better than I EVER thought it would! I have talked to every state in the USA and more countries than I can count.... it all worked great... I was very lucky... some smart guys told me about that Anytone 5555 N II and that thing is no joke.. it really kicks some butt.... hopefully I'll get my license soon and join you on the 10 meters..... everyone say's the Imax is better.... what's your next antenna? for the money the Antron 99 really works pretty good
@@steve_niceguy i just use a wire ant 230 feet off centre doublet. That is a do it all ant a bit unusual but works well. Sounds like you got lots of contacts, good job .
got 2 Antennas on my mast. Antron 99 and a Gmrs antenna down lower. Problem i have it is I cant get my ground rod deeper than 4 '. probably need to add another. my coax goes into the house at the atic . I need to put a lightening arrestor at the coax where it comes off the mast into the house and ground it but my soldering sucks. I do have a taller white oak tree just 30 ' away so my hope is if I have a stike near it that it most likely will hit that tree. I have the coax (both) hanging down so the water doesnt run into the house so maybe I need to coil them a little to have a strike go down the pole but like said my coax does hang down then go back up.
when I did my ground rod.... I thought I would have problems....my ground is nothing but 12" X 12" boulders... digging in my area is a nightmare, I dug down about 3 feet to get rid of the boulders first.... then I got my Hitachi Rotary Hammer Drill it's a jack hammer that delivers 20,000 BPM (blows per minute) I put that jack hammer over the end of the rod and it went in in less than 6 seconds!... it stopped once, must have hit a boulder but it must have vibrated it out of the way..... so you can rent a Rotary Hammer Drill and I bet you'll get it in in seconds. **** I only soldered the end on my coax... I used a crimp end on the #4 copper wire where it goes to the arrestor... I belong to a online radio forum with some of the smartest guys ever.... they were all split over the drip loop some said you have to put a drip and others said don't curve that coax...... the guy I went by actually worked for Motorola putting up those 300 foot Radio and TV towers... back when he was doing it in the 60's not a lot known about lightning protection ... he worked with engineers and they developed ways to protect towers and houses from lightning they wrote books on it for other workers.. the book grew from a few pages to hundreds of pages and got published with his name!.... years later the electrical code needed to put lightning protection in the national electrical code book.. they used his book! so if he tells me lighting will not bend or make curves.. I believe it... but most people do the drip loop like you did..... you really don't want to encourage lightning to go into the house.... I would try to get a couple arrestors... I get several strikes in my yard a year (several acres ) so I was going to put my tower way out in the back.... but talking to the experts.. it makes ZERO difference where it is... if the antenna attracts lightning ... the lightning is attracted to your area... it may hit the antenna or ANYPLACE in a 500 foot radius ...the key is to have the house protected with the ground rod and the tallest part of the tower....... so now hopefully the lightning will go down the tower and into the ground.. you need to give it a place to go..... the code is to tie the house ground rod and radio ground rod together ( OUTSIDE never bring a ground wire into the house) .... if you don't there will be a difference of potential..... say a million volts goes into the ground on the radio ground rod... well in nature everything wants to equalize... so the million volts wants to spread out all around in all directions but it also wants to equalize so it may go towards the house electric ground rod.... if not tied together with a wire outside, it may go through the house hurting anyone in it's path and causing lots of damage to the house.... I was told this and didn't believe it at the time..... there is a phenomenon that most people find after they properly ground their Radio antenna..... they say the sky is positively charged and the earth is negatively charged ... the negative charge in the ground actually raises up and pulls the lightning to hit that area.... but once the antenna is properly grounded the negative charge in a very large area actually dissipates through your antenna!!!! so most people after getting the antenna properly grounded find they never have a lightning strike again?????? I get a few lightning strikes a year on my property well I get a strike every few years that causes damage.. my well in the middle of a field has been hit 5 times!!! I have lost many electrical appliances in my house ..... I installed my base station October of 2023... and have not seen a lightning strike in a mile of me since!!!!! it was more HUMID than norma this summer... for 6 weeks we get thunder storms in New England.... we had a TON of thunder storms this year.... but no lighting strikes near me for the first time in 25 years!!!!... so I believe that phenomenon now! .... Mack do what you want.... nothing is guarrenteed .. you could do nothing and never get hit... or you could do all of this is still get hit.... so do what you think.
Hope you have good luck with your system.
You sure put a lot of thought and effort into it .
I installed a similar ant imax2000 and intended using it on 10m amateur band , sure it was a good tx performer, however i was very disappointed with the rx noise, 2 winters ago a storm did for it . The weak point appears to be the joint between the fiberglass and the metal joints. I am not sorry to say i miss it , i hated it . Hopefully you get good service from your install.
thank you,
I've had it up for a year, just never got around to making a video.... it works better than I EVER thought it would! I have talked to every state in the USA and more countries than I can count.... it all worked great... I was very lucky... some smart guys told me about that Anytone 5555 N II and that thing is no joke.. it really kicks some butt.... hopefully I'll get my license soon and join you on the 10 meters.....
everyone say's the Imax is better.... what's your next antenna?
for the money the Antron 99 really works pretty good
@@steve_niceguy i just use a wire ant 230 feet off centre doublet. That is a do it all ant a bit unusual but works well. Sounds like you got lots of contacts, good job .
got 2 Antennas on my mast. Antron 99 and a Gmrs antenna down lower. Problem i have it
is I cant get my ground rod deeper than 4 '. probably need to add another. my coax goes into the house at the atic . I need to put a lightening arrestor at the coax where it comes off the mast into the house and ground it but my soldering sucks. I do have a taller white oak tree just 30 ' away so my hope is if I have a stike near it that it most likely will hit that tree. I have the coax (both) hanging down so the water doesnt run into the house so maybe I need to coil them a little to have a strike go down the pole but like said my coax does hang down then go back up.
when I did my ground rod.... I thought I would have problems....my ground is nothing but 12" X 12" boulders... digging in my area is a nightmare, I dug down about 3 feet to get rid of the boulders first.... then I got my Hitachi Rotary Hammer Drill it's a jack hammer that delivers 20,000 BPM (blows per minute) I put that jack hammer over the end of the rod and it went in in less than 6 seconds!... it stopped once, must have hit a boulder but it must have vibrated it out of the way..... so you can rent a Rotary Hammer Drill and I bet you'll get it in in seconds.
**** I only soldered the end on my coax... I used a crimp end on the #4 copper wire where it goes to the arrestor... I belong to a online radio forum with some of the smartest guys ever.... they were all split over the drip loop some said you have to put a drip and others said don't curve that coax...... the guy I went by actually worked for Motorola putting up those 300 foot Radio and TV towers... back when he was doing it in the 60's not a lot known about lightning protection ... he worked with engineers and they developed ways to protect towers and houses from lightning they wrote books on it for other workers.. the book grew from a few pages to hundreds of pages and got published with his name!.... years later the electrical code needed to put lightning protection in the national electrical code book.. they used his book! so if he tells me lighting will not bend or make curves.. I believe it... but most people do the drip loop like you did..... you really don't want to encourage lightning to go into the house.... I would try to get a couple arrestors...
I get several strikes in my yard a year (several acres ) so I was going to put my tower way out in the back.... but talking to the experts.. it makes ZERO difference where it is... if the antenna attracts lightning ... the lightning is attracted to your area... it may hit the antenna or ANYPLACE in a 500 foot radius ...the key is to have the house protected with the ground rod and the tallest part of the tower....... so now hopefully the lightning will go down the tower and into the ground.. you need to give it a place to go.....
the code is to tie the house ground rod and radio ground rod together ( OUTSIDE never bring a ground wire into the house) .... if you don't there will be a difference of potential..... say a million volts goes into the ground on the radio ground rod... well in nature everything wants to equalize... so the million volts wants to spread out all around in all directions but it also wants to equalize so it may go towards the house electric ground rod.... if not tied together with a wire outside, it may go through the house hurting anyone in it's path and causing lots of damage to the house....
I was told this and didn't believe it at the time..... there is a phenomenon that most people find after they properly ground their Radio antenna..... they say the sky is positively charged and the earth is negatively charged ... the negative charge in the ground actually raises up and pulls the lightning to hit that area.... but once the antenna is properly grounded the negative charge in a very large area actually dissipates through your antenna!!!! so most people after getting the antenna properly grounded find they never have a lightning strike again?????? I get a few lightning strikes a year on my property
well I get a strike every few years that causes damage.. my well in the middle of a field has been hit 5 times!!! I have lost many electrical appliances in my house ..... I installed my base station October of 2023... and have not seen a lightning strike in a mile of me since!!!!! it was more HUMID than norma this summer... for 6 weeks we get thunder storms in New England.... we had a TON of thunder storms this year.... but no lighting strikes near me for the first time in 25 years!!!!... so I believe that phenomenon now! .... Mack do what you want.... nothing is guarrenteed .. you could do nothing and never get hit... or you could do all of this is still get hit.... so do what you think.
Ground the phaser to the tower