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Great video, thanx. Any chance of doing a video on the Wilson 5000? Wilson says it’s the best antenna you can buy

Hey there, some guy there, Enthusiastic Steve why the hell not big tall antennas in ham radio or Cb or tv....?

Well the K40 has a quieter noise floor, MUCH less RX noise. The Striker is a gimmick all the Alan head bolts on the top are fake plastic and are not really bolts at all. The thinner K40 Coax has better shielding than the thicker Stryker coax and the K40 Coax, since it is thinner does not get damaged as much when you close a car door on it. Also since the extra length / height on the Stryker doesn't doesn't help why have it. I do not know about the striker, but after a few years some K-40's have been known to get some water in the coils and need to be resealed. I know the K40 is very broad banded, I do not know how wide banded the striker is. I do not need the blue LED Gimmick. The K40 has been proven since the 1970's. I will take a K40 or a Sirio 5000 over the cheep plastic Stryker anytime.

is this rtlsdr or sdrplay ? its sound insane clear

Cool

you can change the colour of the lights .

lol, this guy is delusional.

enjoyed this thanks ❤❤ Canterbury U.K

I just completed my first slim-jim and it's fantastic. Anyone who believes these are a gimmick needs to build and tune one. I have a 1.12 SWR on mine and I'm very happy with the result.

I must have missed something. I got nothing out of this video.

Great video, very informative. I like the way you tested the different methods, and sending and receiving from different distances was really nice. And I'm sure it was a pain in the ass to edit this video as well, so good job. I don't care how old this video is thank you 👍🏽.

Practical mods Steve 👍

The K-40 & Sirio hands down they were even, for the money the K-40 all day long especially because of the build quality of the K-40 over the Sirio..

I have an A-99 with a 102" steel whip on the top element. I had to cut about 8-10"s off the top of the whip to get a flat SWR on 11 meters. It's a 1:2 on channel 1 and flat on Channel 40 to channel 80 on 27-Mhz.. Channel 20 is flat until you run like 200-watts into the antenna then it goes up to 1:2 match.. The steel whip seems to aid in TX and the ground plane kit seems to give the antenna better ears..

There is NO WAY that the coil in the Stryker mobile antenna is going to handle 10,000 watts on any key down lasting more than a few seconds! LOL That's a joke and an outright LIE! The signals are the same but the audio level on the Stryker is a bit lower in volume. A bit harder to hear the Stryker audio.. Dude, you did not mention the audio levels between the both?

There’s a current sensing circuit inside that battery pack that can be modified so that the logic can be tricked into keeping the output on.

thought a bloke called Jim made it lol

Mine came with a 12v Cig lighter socket so I can plug any 12v item in, I used one to run a mobile radio as a base for a week, charging when the radio wasn't needed.

I also after watching the Fred in the Shed and Stephen Legg videos I ordered a CRT SS 9900 radio. I ordered a second one after I had my first CRT SS 9900. There are still CB radio resellers stock that have them. But you need to be quick because nowadays the stocks are depleted because of the new Anytone AT 6666 Pro and Radioddity QT80.

Hey @StephenLegg İ have read the McKinley has a modulation problem. They say that the modulation is too low! Did you have that problem?

What about an illuminating rf sensing fairy for the top for fun ,😂...nice one steve 👍

Interesting how the Duel band antenna works as not exactly on second harmonics...now a commercial mobile antenna would be something interesting 👍

At the distance you were covering there will be little difference in signal received at the base unit you need to create more distance it is then the A-10 goes to work over the K40. An antenna I found to be better than the A-10 and K40 is the Sirio Bull Trucker 3000 mag mount at 50 miles the Sirio out-performs A-10 not by a great amount but still better. at 50 miles the K40 could not be heard. I have had my K40 since the 80's and it is still ready to be used I did have to replace the coax once using a higher quality cable. Currently I have two Trucks one car and an RV but have over 50 antennas to choose from. Someone here has been begging me to get rid of them. Same person says I have too many radios and guns as well. That person may be right but I'm not getting rid of anything lol.

Nice to hear you on 27 yesterday.

Great contact Steve, I worked him on SSB a couple of days ago 🙂

Dead here steve more life im the local cemetery...

wow a wagner once regarded as one of the worse piles of crap to bear a uk27/81 badge! impressive i have only ever seen one in the metal and it was indeed (at the time) utterly hopeless in the crowded channels of the west midlands.

How do CBers make up their callsigns? Is there a convention as to how they're put together? It's a long time since I was on the air as "Shock Wave"!

Good luck Steve ...had one of those radios way back but badged differently always looked impressive 👍

uh never expected that! I think I might have a look some time

Does the cd player like heavy metal 🤣

I had the grandstand. If the clock was flashing waiting for the time to be set, it would interfere with the recieved audio. Also had the Murphy, that transformer was loud! 😂

In my experience you can't beat a long wire long = big !

Not true. Big antenna always helps.

Well done on the antenna construction steve and especially out there braving the elements...thats what radio is supposed to be about not just sitting at home and piloting a radio 😁...nice to see you have activity there on 4m ...it used to be good here but now seems as desd as a dodo...have been trying to get some up on 4m again...love the band so keep up zhe enthusiasm steve. Best wishes 👍

hi steve, ive been messing about with an sdr for a few weeks and loving it, bit of a steep learning curve for me, but just a quick question please, i been given a uniden bearcat scanner 125xlt, and its got no freqs in, thinking about doing a full freq search start freq will be 110.000 mhz right thru to 170.000 mhz, will get me all civillian aircraft mill freq cb radio mountain rescue and so on forgot to say that im new to scanners and sdr stuff thanks

the K40 ,has now been surpassed by the Striker A 10

Hang on, you are comparing a horizontal loop in your garden with a small mobile antenna on your car. Not sure this is a good comparison as it will depend upon propagation conditions and receive antenna conditions. Different transceivers without comparing what they are putting out as in power envelope and modulation, different feeders, different connectors (as in quality of construction and fitments) Way too many variables for this to be a valid test.

Vibroplex, Spider Beams U.S. dealer, sells the clamp sets to keep these masts from collapsing on themselves ! 👍😉

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Great to see cb being kept alive and the relaxed atmosphere can be a breath of fresh air if run properly... almost like it used to be before 27 81 when it literally turned to 💩...now it seem to have grown up a lot since those days so nice to see ones keeping it alive when most seemed to ne glued to their mobile 👍

I have one of these steve and it works brilliantly well impressed with it 👍

Edit: **The radios I'm using is a CRT Mike CB and the other radio is a Midland M-Mini USB** Absolutely fantastic video, I've got a few of these, I'm going to buy one of those wee jack plug to cigarette adaptors to try on mines, I'm in the middle of making a wee portapack setup and this will be ideal, thanks for sharing

12:16 20W at 12V is 1.66A, and that's peak, rather than average on SSB

3000 milli Amp air air battery is only a 3A battery. This bloke hasn't got a clue.

What is a 'standard' torch light?

Interesting device but I wouldn't trust putting 8A throught that jack plug !

Good Video Steve

IEC plugs for 12V? WTF are you thinking Steve?

Nice bit of kit Steve great review too and the outtake was funny 😂 atb 👍