Who Remembers This Forgotten CB Radio Antenna?
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Basically an end-fed halfwave used by countless to work skip on CB and Ham Radio, these sold in the thousands over the years.
Who remembers the classic 27 MHz/10M Stationmaster MK1 antenna?
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I still got my first mk1 Half wave Station master antenna that I bought brand new way back in 1981 so it's 42 years old and still on the tower working beautifully. It served me well right through my CB days as a young teen and then in 2004 was re-tuned for 10m Ham. It's had its fair share of being knocked about in bad weather and it gets its usual maintenance clean up every 2 years or so but you just can't kill this antenna. I love it and it's been a big part of my radio life for so long. I have tempted to replace it a few time but just haven't got the heart to retire it while it's working so well. I would be very happy to see it make 50 years old and still working.
I had one of those bolted to the facia board on my bedroom, as a kid in the eighties! And yes, I did work 11m. DX with it. I can still remember to this day working a station in South Dakota USA from Melbourne, with this antenna! It was a significant moment in my radio life, to say the least. And while we're on the path of nostalgia, the radio that I had was a Dick Smith Hornet. 40 channels, SSB and bright red LED's! And that's right. A Leson TW 232 desk microphone! And a Tandy Radio Shack VSWR metre! Wow. Talk about jolting the old memory back into gear.
That’s awesome!! Still one of the great antennas, I still see them in random places all over town
I still have my original station master Mk1 under the house, I just need time. 😢
Remember? Heck I've still got two that I use!... great antenna
Very interesting and well made video.
I am ON3VCF a happy brit radio newbie here in Brussels Belgium.
Last week at our weekly evening we were talking antennas and corrosion, and one of our eldest and experienced members told me that he uses a spray can of transparent varnish over the whole thing, top to bottom. After 8 years he had to move it, and the metal and the PL connector were clean and like new inside. Not a bit of rust or corrosion.
He said he sprayed it with 2 coats.
So I'm going to do it too.
I'm using a Sirio 5000 1/4 wave from Italy up on top of my chimney.
Today, 25w got me 2200km to Moscow
Me.... Happy bunny!
I can't wait for you to get this repeater working - would be cool to work you mobile without the internet in between.
It will be awesome!
My neighbor had a shock wave antenna when I was growing up. I inherited one from a silent key probably 15 years ago and it's sat in my garage for 5 until I gave it away to a new ham.
These are awesome!!! I had one ages ago when I was a nerd in year 8 working DX with a super cheater mkIII all from Dick Smith Electronics. Wish I had never given any of it away
Have gotten myself a Cobra 29 LTD Classic, with external speaker & PSU.
Saving up to buy a Station Master early next year, will fit it all out in the shed
Nice!
The station master was my first cb antenna back in the day. Worked well with the Uniden AX144 ! Still use one today on 10m, mainly FT8.
Saw your tag and immediately thought of the 102" whip that was popular in early CB mobiles.
Its still pretty popular, best mobile antenna available.
@@GoonyMclinuxI still have mine for mobile and haven't decided whether that or my SG303 works better!
My Dad made a half wave ringo antenna for use on 27 MHz. It worked a treat.
A tip for any aluminium antenna assembly or repair work is to use an anti corrosive jointing compound like Duralac between any dissimilar metals. Brass and copper in contact with aluminium will suffer from electrolysis in the presence of water. Never bolt a copper crimp lug in direct connection with aluminium.
I'm using TEF-Gel for the dissimilar metal connections:
www.tefgel.com.au/
11m is far from forgotten especially at the moment…..I wouldn’t mind trying one of those Shockwaves myself although shipping to the UK maybe a little awkward…looking forward to the next instalment of this repeater video…73’s
Old school! :D Had one of those plugged into a Johnson Viking in the late 80s early 90s. On the old social Media for kids in Launceston. lol.
Sounds like a nice setup.I had mine plugged into a Johnson Viking 4740 aswell, I was repeatedly told I had the best audio of anyone in the local area on that rig..I still miss it.
Good one Hayden!
Thanks Lewis
Old school, bought my station master in 1989! Still in the air today and working fine. Driving into it is a Uniden Grant from that same year and amazingly the antenna and radio all still work. Even the vswr is good!
OMG buddy you just took me back to the halcyon days of CB radio! We had two of these on the roof of our house - incredible antenna - woooohoooo! Cheers buddy 👍🍻
ps buddy - this antenna was also really popular at coastal areas when Marine Radio used the top end of 27mhz as well. Wow this is awesome mate - Cheers and beers
Best antenna ever. I had one, I extended the stink pipe up on my parents house another 5m above the roof ridge line and the Station master sat at the top. I used to chat to NZ (26mhz) and the US, it was connected up to my trusty Ferris 5000 with the Digiscan Channel expander and a few extra watts on AM and SSB. . None of that TV interference and no splatter, what a wonderful combo and memory
Wow Hayden,
The Station-master MkI was one of the first antennas I ever built, for 26MHz CB over here.
They're quite an easy build, apart from getting the loading coil the right size and the turns spacing correct,
I sold it when I moved to Ham radio and constantly kicked myself afterwards, as it would have been perfect for 10m.
You can still buy them in VK Mike. There are a few places that still sell them.
Well Hayden that was a very nolstalgic walk in the 80's for me 😀 I still have a Mk 1 in use on 10 & 11m. Also have a new one still in box. Have had over the years many inc Archer 5/8, Ringo, Moonraker etc. Think the Archer 5/8 was my favourite. Might have to get another.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane 😉 Looking forward to the 10m repeater in actior 👍
Got a Penetrator 500 I bought new back in the late 70's. I took it down about 10 years ago and it is still out in the shed. It was the king of cb antennas back in the day.
I’m just Glad to see CB is slowly making a come back😂
Had quite a few of the Staionmasters . Was on CB in the beginning in the 70's
I had one that took a lightening strike in '81, while I was using the hand mic sitting in the bath tub!!!! The static jolt made the metal plate in my head vibrate at about 40k hz... Felt like I'd microwaved my gonads, while swallowing a bowling ball made of those super conductors that float and spin at zero degrees K. I danced around in the kitchen on one foot for about 20 mins. which eventually led to the invention of the 80's craze known as break dancing. Now? I built a ULF full wave length end fed long wire antenna, for working the 520 Meter band, QRP (0.25 watt crystal), while CQ-ing alien life forms via CW... while doing PLOTAs (parking lots on the air). Red Rooster or Oporto's are my favorite PLs to work, especially if it's an abandoned and dodgy one. Anyhow back to the alien encounter QSOs, works well, except the morse code they use is 180 degrees opposite from ours. The guys in my local dork support group think I am QSB. ET phone home.
Yes had one too for cb .. then amateur 10mtr after a few adjustments .. and on 15mtr at a bit of tuner intervention ....
I had one of these beasts back in the early 80's, I had a Ringo before that but this turned out to be much better. I would also run all sorts of wire based antenna's strung up in trees nearby, even made a 3 element yagi that way lol. Back then it was all CB with my nice GE5825B running big power, mics and a modded PLL02A - such teenage rebels :)
It looks like I"m about to do it all again too.... just ordered an Anytone AT6666pro
That thing is monstrous! It is probably very wide banded!
Sure are with an antenna tuna they work a treat on ham bands too .
I have had about four of these. Never had a new one.
One I converted into a 6m halfwave vertical by scaling everything down.
Another I removed the coil, shortened it and used a metal roof for a ground plane for 20m.
I have one on a pole for 10m and 11m and another in storage for a spare.
I converted an old one to a 5/8 on 6m too.
www.hamradiodx.net/58-stationmaster-mk1-on-6m
I've had one since the 80s. It was on the roof at home about 6 or 7 years ago, but a cockatoo decided to bend the top section so I took it down to repair it.
A few months ago I finished the repair with a new 12mm tube at the top and adjusted the length for around 28.5 MHz. I now use it for 10m and 12m with a tuner and the log of DX FT8 contacts is great.
I have it guyed with whipper snipper cord from the middle down to the colourbond roof that it sits at the peak of. The whipper snipper cord is good for about 5 years between replacements.
For my American friends a whipper snipper is what Americans call a weed-wacker.
I have the NBS antennas equivalent. Got my first 2 ham contacts with it, both DX
still have mine in the air, gave it a bit of a service last year. i use it on 10m
My first DX contact was on one of those. Good memories.
Peter from Shockwave makes the best antennas. and is a real gentleman to do business with.many of my friends have brought his antennas and are very pleased i do recommend.
Hayden,
Got one given to me back in 2001 for nothing, just required some cleaning up an worked a treat. Worked into US on 29Mhz FM Simplex & via repeaters too. Love 29Mhz FM still can't let my FT-8900R go as have so much fun.
Cheers Adam VK2YK & VK5GA
Yeah my FT-8900 is fantastic too! Don't think I'll ever get rid of it
I do remember, Hayden. This was a right blast from the past! 🤗 I reckon it'll work quite well.
Yes I remember those days well, lived in Bowen Qld in the 80's and ran a Super Panther with the Station Master, was right on a hill and next to the beach, it was a great antenna, funny as I was just looking at them the other day thinking do I pull the trigger and get one shipped to NZ..... love 10Mtrs its a great band when running!
My 6m repeater is using a cut down Stationmaster. We quite deliberately wanted a low gain antenna because the repeater is sited on the side of a 'mountain,' at 750m, between a high elevation town at 1100m and low elevation at 30m, these two spots being 40km apart. To get sigs to go uphill AND downhill, it needed a spherical radiation pattern, which is precisely what a half-wave vertical does.
Same! Although I converted mine to a 5/8. The radials have fallen off since, I have a replacement on the way.
www.hamradiodx.net/58-stationmaster-mk1-on-6m
yup i had one, it is how i got tracked down and a visit from the authorities for not having my 27meg licence i was booming out on my base station and he could see it from miles away, turns out he was a pretty good bloke and me being only a young fella let me off with a warning and week latter got my licence, nods fast very good antenna thinking back also the 5/8s ground plane was pretty good as well for 27mgz
I still have a Sirio 2000 5/8 with 8 radials from 1990 in the basement 😊
I look forward to hearing your repeater on the air. VK7 booms into FNQ on 10m. It must be just that right distance.
Yep it’s almost exactly a single hop on Sporadic E 👌
Oh boy! Making my youth flood back! I've still got mine in the shed and from memory it's setup for 28.5MHz
Need to get it back up in the air!
@@HamRadioDX I'm going low key, I'll be using either a 1.5m or 1m ex 27mhz mobile one whip for the repeater once it's back on the air!
Station master came out in the later 1970's i had one it was easier to mount the Five Eighth ground plane was a little large on the side of the house . had it hooked up to my President Washington and Turner + 3 microphone when i upgraded in 1979 . Seven years later i got my HAM License . I notice a Ringo mentioned in the comments in the 70's refereed to as a splatter stick .
Their is some antenna's like that 1/2 wave. sold in the US . I had one with a loop around the whole center element. just a single turn ring with a tap. I had the 5/8 wave MACO one. had a bigger ring. still make that one. I have a 6 meter half wave with a small loop at bottom . works great. sold threw MFJ . for the 10 meter FM part of the band shorten 11 meter antenna a bit. also I had a 3/4 wave 11 meter antenna with gamma rod. still make that one in the UK. I cut wire for my DX commander 3/4 wave for 10 meters and 3/4 wave for 6 meters. great gain . have to take 40 meter off and replace. the portable quick set up one. I got extra DX 10 wire. made most bands and just put on what I want. mono band 3/4 wave on 10 meters. below 1.5 SWR threw the whole 10 meter band. 10 meters really going in the US. same on 12 meters. I cheat on 11 and 12 meters. I hit tune button on 7300 and it gets out . just under 3:1 on 12 meters with 3/4 wave cut. better on CB . my half wave never broadband that much . ether does the standard 1/4 cut wire. that should work super for 10 meter repeater use. 73's Boston NY USA
Lol, miner's in the garage now next to my old 1/2 wave ringo for 27mhz
I am still using my Stationmaster....works well.
Had one of the stationmasters around 2006 on 10M and worked really well, only sold it early this year but they are not rocket science to build, think I still have te dimensions for it somewhere.
Blast from the past. You also had the Ringo and Archer 5/8 ground plan antenna 👍
Classics!
I'm looking at one of these as I type, I had to replace the top section on mine, as it had corroded into the next lower section and snapped off when I tried to separate them, but what can one expect from an antenna that has been in the air and under constant use since the early 1980's ? I have spoken ALL OVER THE WORLD on this, with as little as 4w output. In the 1990's, NZ on AM wasn't hard with 4-5w, and I had a 4 hour S7-S9+ conversation one night with a guy in Belarus, when it was still part of the former USSR using about 20w from my HR2510 on the high 27Mhz freeband.They are a great antenna and you can use them out of the box from around 25Mhz right up to about 32Mhz at under 3:1 SWR, with a tuner, you can even get them down to the 15m band. I even knew a guy that actually used one mobile once, it wasn't very successful on the car, it missed all the trees, but a low bridge took it out. We all did some stupid shit back in the day.
hi hayden i have got one of each and they are the really good.
Nice looking antennas from Shockwave. I like the 3 Element 27MHz YAGI Beam they have on their website. Wounder if they will ever have a US distributor? Thanks for the great video Hayden. 73 Joe
Thats the best cb antenna,102 inch wip 2 -102 inch radials on a 45 degree angle, 30 ft galv fence pole grounded i get less than 1. On swr reading. best antenna ever
Remember it ?. This little black duck still has one, and it is original.
Grazey master by G&C Communications in Leongatha Victoria is the same and works well.
Well, what do you know? That looks like the same antenna which I believe is the Mk 1 that my dad bought when he was there in Australia some where 1984 or '85. And believe it or not, I am still using it to this day. I've put it down once in a while for periodic maintainance. In my experience with it, it is a very broad banded antenna. Now with the bands open I have tuned it so I can use it for both 10 an 11 meters and have been making dx contacts with it at only 20 feet off the ground. How much do they cost now and where can you buy them? I'm from the Philippines and my sisters family live there. Maybe I can ask them to buy me another one. Great antenna is all I can say about it.
I have that same Station Master mark 1 from Mobile One sitting on my garage trusses. Not sure what I will do with it but not ready to sell it either. 😃
Get it up in the air! :)
I still have a half wave ringo type🙂
I was going to buy one last year but bought some Ham gear instead. I wan't to try a star duster like Callum made from the UK.
I was mobile only in the 80's so I haven't seen it. It looks very robust though.👍
You know they're 20 meg wide right !
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Hi there I just got a new shockwave station master antenna, just wondering if the should be continuity between the centre of the plug and the out of the plug on the base of the antenna , thank you .regards Petar
Watching your channel costs me a fortune. 😁 73 Andrew VK2ZRK
Haha sorry! What did you buy?
Lol had one on my uniden por 810e
I used a collinear ⅝ wave vertical with top cap hat elements and radials in the 1980s clamped to the chimney.
22feet + 5inch
How freaky...I am just getting one of the 5/8 Shockwaves refurbished now..0.64 is what they really are. There was a 0.64 ass well years ago that was the best base antenna but the coil inside was tiny not like the shockwave one. My Shockwave 0.64 will be used for 11/10mtrs tuning it for such. Make sure you make the top element no less than 16mm tube. Cockatoos up here in Qld use the tips as a strippers pole..the 56 or 8mm tube just breaks off when cockys start swinging off them
Nice! They are great antennas. Luckily we don't have such a big problem with birds down here.
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P.S. I was on 28 Mhz