🛑 HOW TO BUILD THE EASIEST CB ANTENNA, 500 MILE CONTACT TALKING ACROSS THE COUNTRY! $5 BUILD
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Thats hilarious !
When all else fails, fall back to the laws of reciprocity !
😂🤣😂
This antenna should be called the,
" Should'a Could'a " Antenna !
Funny stuff !
And those are the largest bugs I've ever seen, running around in the background !
😋
Excellent physics and mathematics lesson. I used to chair a Radiography program and could've used you to teach Electrical Theory to my students. I'm building a Dipole antenna now and your video will help me immensely. Thanks!
Thank you for the kind comments! That’s very nice of you! Good luck to you my friend and 73’s 👍👍👍
Another great detailed video. Thank you Johnny
And as always thank you Johnny!!
I just made this antenna and I hoist it up about 40 feet.
I got a regular old Uniden pro510 xl and a 100 feet of coax and I just talked to someone about 16 to 18 miles with it....
I made the antenna the way you showed us .
Thank you.
Wow! Awesome!!! I’m glad to hear that!!!!
You are most certainly welcome my friend! I’m very happy for you! ✌️✌️✌️✌️ you’ll be able to talk some skip too!
I use the extended double zep. Its a 5/8 wave with homemade 450 ohm ladder line spaced 1 1/2" apart for the tuning. It has a little more gain over the dipole but only has to be 17 feet off the ground for the 10° take off angle.
Nice! I was going to make a video on a simple J-pole as well! Very similar to the zep 👍
Thank for posting this video, thank for explaining and thanks for showing how it is done.
You are most certainly welcome my friend!! 👍👍👍
Pretty good info this would help alot.
Yeah have fun with it you should do well
Beautiful. Just beautiful.👍🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⚡️👏🏻⚡️
Thanks my friend 👍 I really appreciate it 😎
Good job! How crazy was all the band that day! I avoid feet as you avoid meters.
Do yourself a favor, and get your Ham license !
It will open new doors for you, and you certainly have the intellect !
Go for it !
It's easy !
No Morse Code requirement !
And your 11 meter dipole design , would work perfectly, with more contacts, with little trimming !
Love the enthusiasm !
It reminds me of being a kid, and monkeying around with radio stuff !
Similar to your experiment, a friend and myself traveled down the road a bit, to his Grandmother's Two story house, where we crawled out an upstairs window, and placed a Quarter wave Ground plain antenna on a sloping roof, and talked skip barefoot !
We thought we were doing something great !
And it was, great fun !
Thanks for the memories !
That's been more than 51 years ago !
👍😉
I’m applying for my ham license very soon I’ve already learned a bit of Morse code and that’s exactly where I want to start with the technicians License.
I guess I could’ve gotten my license a long time ago and I should have.
First thing I’d like to do is QRP talk around the world on limited power using CW
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it. 👍👍👍
I always love a comment with good enthusiasm !
@@JohnnyNJones
You will enjoy the Morse Code, once you get started !
Just be sure to get the basics down, Alphabet, numbers, and some punctuation and you'll be fine !
Don't push too hard, and don't be too hard on yourself !
I believe W1AW still sends Code practice on various Ham Bands, and it has helped many an Amateur learn the Code !
Hope to hear you on the Air sometime !
Look up the Michigan Mighty Mite QRP Transmitter !
Easy to build, and sounds like it's something you would enjoy !
I have made many contacts using one, to include Cuba from the middle of the U.S. !
Have fun !
And congrats !
👍😉
@@sleeve8651 oh, that would help a lot. I would definitely need some practice. Thank you very much! I’m getting rather excited about it 👍👍
Yeah, I really wanna make my own QRP single transistor transmitter. I’ve looked into it before and I even have the supplies for it. I just need the license.
A Johnson Messenger in action, still working. Beautiful!
yes it’s a beautiful radio man.
Classic and still working
Awesome video great explanation and I remained STD free 🤣
That’s great to hear, that’s how I greet everyone “Hi, I’m Johnny and I’m
STD free
Awesome brother,thank you
No problem buddy make sure you look at my recent video on how to ground this antenna for much better receive and transmit
You should do test on SSB with that antenna if get video out there that would be cool.
Yes I’m trying to do the side band test now but having radio troubles because the only ssb I have is a Brokedown POS
Excellent choice in the twine you chose to suspend the dipole legs !
My choice for decades !
Comes in various colors, and lasts for years and years !
Known as,
" Masons " Twine !
Very tuff !
And you can melt the ends with a lighter, to keep them from unwrapping !
Oh yeah it’s really tough stuff. It’s incredibly difficult to break.
Thanks man I appreciate your comment
I love this video!!!!
Thank you my friend!
Polarization is irrelevant for skip. Only if you're local does it effect vertical and horizontal. For CB 102 plus 6 inches for the spring. Capacitance will probably be low for automotive so don't cut until you get it installed and check for resonance
Yes the polarization shouldn’t matter because when skip happens you’re going to have all sorts of disturbances in the wave but I use it specifically for talking local because I’m not much of a skip talker I don’t have an amplifier
the interesting thing is you soldered blue side to the ground of the coax and white to the other is this how you establish a ground plane?
Yes it’s a counter poise, you can ground it further down the coax if you wish.
A dipole is a balanced antenna design, but in this case it’s unbalanced like a monopole.
What would be the best antenna design for 75 mile communications with similar antennae on both sides?
Probably a Yagi uda design.
75 miles is quite a distance with ground waves. You’ll probably need to use an amplifier but a yagi antenna will help tremendously.
But ar that range it may be better just to invest in a different type of radio.
2 m with repeaters might be better
052 in Glasgow! I'll listen out for ya!👋👍🏼🏴🇺🇸
Thanks bud 👍 73’s NC 150 waiving 👋
Thanks!
No problem!
fantastic i got new radio coming next week all mode big trees too i will build that i wonder how it works radio does up to 40w FM,AM USB,LSB 500 miles epic copy thats 800 km i think englishman in holland I try CQ DX to my buddy in south ockendon Essex UK around 500km
It works very well, I put in a ground rod and was able to talk further as well.
If you want to talk DX you can do it with this antenna especially with higher power
This antenna could withstand 40 Watts easily
Nice chickens!
We’re gonna catch something maybe a STD 😂😂 shit had me rolling
Hahaha If I had known you would watch this I would’ve added more of that
@@JohnnyNJones yeah that was hilarious
I’m glad you enjoyed Tim
Peanut is creating a RUclips channel as well
All about tractors and lawnmowers
Awesome 👍 y'all in the north or south? I'm up in Michigan and a get Spanish speaking people on channel 9 everyday,it's the only channel they use.
I’m in North Carolina, Whenever skips rolling in I get Mexico quite easily
At first I thought you were some kind of paradiddle but then I realized you knew your shit, 73's from 2112 Carson City, Nevada!
Well thank you I appreciate that, my stumbling bumbling demeanor is often my weak point and it gives the impression I’m an idiot.
Which I guess in a way I am considering I can’t speak haha
I gotta try some of this co-actual cable
Hahahaha 😂 you got me
@JohnnyNJones great video. Some good explanation in there.👍
@@JSMachine1 hey I appreciate that man, thank ya 👍
I'm running a dual cophased setup on this Kenworth perhaps I'll be able to communicate with you one day. I've always got my ears on.
Absoluetly i just put this antenna up another 50 foot too!
I am hooking up the coaxial cable now and maybe tomorrow we’re going to go live and talk some skip
@@JohnnyNJones What kind of coax do you use?
What is the total hight for your antenna now you ended up with?
Thanks in advance.
I was always taught that 108 was a quarter wave. 102 for a whip antenna plus a 6 inch spring.
You are correct 108 inches is a half wave
But it is not considering the velocity factor of copper in my case, if we take 108 and multiply it times 0.95 we get a little under 103 inches.
Also on the east coast…my antenna sucks but I’ll keep my ears tuned!
Well you can build your own pretty easily if you want to👍
An incredibly resourceful and highly effective homemade dipole antenna. I appreciate that you first discussed the RF theory involved, as well as the many factors which can greatly impact your SWR. And you were easily able to talk from North Carolina to Pensacola, Florida on a barefoot (I'm assuming 5 Watt?) vintage base radio. I can only imagine the distance you could accomplish with a good linear. I've been searching online for a while for a guide on how to make a high performance antenna with both simplicity and a low cost threshold. Without delay, I am building the exact antenna you made in your video. Are there any special considerations I need to make when using your antenna along with a RM-KL203/P linear amp? My radio is a 1980s Cobra 40 channel base station. Thanks so much for the insight and the.great instructional video.
I’m sorry about that Shane RUclips did not notify me of your comment.
The only consideration would be to make sure that your co-axle cable and the wire that you use can with stand whatever power you’re putting into it from the amplifier.
Check the voltage rating for your coaxial cable and check the voltage rating for your copper AWG size 👍
Thank you very much for the kind words and I hope you have a great time!
Oh by the way,,, ecellent explanation for the DIYers
Thank you 👍
If we use 110 inch insulated wire and fold it back onto itself using 8 inches at the end, will it still be 110 inches of radiated length, or will it be 102 inches of radiated length,?
If you fold it back on itself and it’s uninsulated it should just split the current and should still be fine.
Of course an increased diameter wire is going to have a lower impedance but all that stuff is not really that important when you’re building a simple dipole.
If you want to be very scientific with it I’d say start building
If it’s insulated it can still work because of the induced current.
However in my experience it can be a little finicky to do that. I’m not sure if it’s the added capacitance through the wires and dialectric being parallel or not.
I’ll have to look more into that. But hey, give it a shot and see what happens. 👍
But I would guess you would end up not exactly with 102 or exactly with 110
@JohnnyNJones I thing when folding the uninsulated shield over the insulated shield that a unbalance gets even get more unbalanced since since the signal travels one way on the uninsulated shield and then reverses flow and there is a possibility that the signal cancels each other out on that side of the dipole and this should get it more to be unbalanced and with it gets it more finiky. So you may need a balun etc to bring it back into balance
Nice video
Thank ya
Crazy question why are you saying CQ CQ on Am channels. Not familiar with that kind of Radio but I don't see any switches just 2 knobs
CQ is still used on CB radio to this day it is not exclusive to ham channels.
It’s a way of saying I don’t want any local contacts
Need to make a hen antena it is a japaneas antena. It is directonal and easy to build. If money is tight 75 ohm tv coax works as transmision line! Just needs to be 1/2 multipl.
Yeah I have a lot of RG 6 75 ohm line from a cable company I can use that for sure If I ever decide to take that on
75 ohm coax works good! Low loss. The hent antena is a good one to make
Ever heard of s efhw?
got a sub for the grammar respect.
🤣 Great 👍
Is that antenna or coax grounded anywhere? Or is that system grounded at all?
Yep the coax is grounded to a rod before it reaches the house
@@JohnnyNJones Thank you.
Can I use 20 ft of coax or does it half to be longer
You can use whatever you need, 20 foot will work but you have to run the coax at a right angle to the antenna for best results so you cannot lift your antenna very high.
But that’s up to you
@@JohnnyNJones How far do you have to run the coax at the right angle away from the dipole before you can drop down the coax?
Approximately how high should it be?
You want it up at least 18 feet 👍
Strip the jacket cover off of the coax so you have just over 105 inches of shield showing (This is a bit long for later trimming). Carefully loosen the shield by compressing in on itself and turn in inside out like a sock. Pull, push, and maneuver the shield over the coax jacket, turning inside out (again, like a sock) all the way. What you have now is 105 inches of center, and 105 of the shield pulled over the jacket. The antenna is 210 " long at this point. You have a dipole that can be hung vertically. This is the same as an Antron 99, or a Bigstick.
To adjust SWR, Carefully trim the length and slide braid up the jacket to shorten it. etc. Make them match. An inch or so makes a big difference. Once SWR is good, wrap the braid with tape sticking it to the coax jacket.
For feedline length. it is important use odd multiples of 1/4 wavelength considering the velocity factor. I normal just put a connector at the very bottom (UHF female), and slide this inside of a fishing rod (20' crappie type). Or PVC. But this can be hung from the tip. Works great. Note, inside of tubing will change SWR a bit.
Like so -- www.n4lcd.com/wireantennas/47-Vertical_Sleeve_Antenna_for_10m.jpg
Yes that works too, It just takes a bit more coax than I have to spare and yes using reactively odd multiples of 1/4 wave is a very good idea
Because we definitely want a good ohmic match
Sorry, but it is NOT like an Antron 99 or a Big Stick. The 99, and the Big Stick, and the iMax are essentially END FED antennas, and not electically the same as a center fed dipole.
@@TheColeChannelEagle What I described here is would be called a Bazooka by ham folks. Some believe them to be a ZEP. All I know, they work. There is no doubt about that. Easy to pull up into a tree. Or, put inside of Fiberglass rod or PVC. Back in the day, we hung these all over the place. Mostly on local hilltops. Very few people knew about them. Those that did would pull up in the mobile, fish the coax out of the bushes and plug in. Presto!
Have a look - ruclips.net/video/lwbT4ZX6514/видео.html
Has anyone figured out how to turn the shield inside out? I cant get my RG8X cable to roll.
How far could you reach locally with this kind of setup?
I get about 20 to 30 miles without an amplifier
@@JohnnyNJones Thank you very much.
@@FloryJohann No problem 👍
Can i run 100 watts or so on a wire?
Yeah no problem.
Standard household wiring is going to carry 120v all the time anyway so its used to the wattage.
@@JohnnyNJones Was going to ask that.. Good to know. 👍
I'm the army I used plastic spoons as insulators. Just an idea.
Yep any insulator will work!
That would be good for hoa areas you should sell theses on ebay and marketplace.
It’s dead as hell where I live. 30 years ago it was popping like corn.
I thought it was pretty dead here too until I put that antenna up, I can’t even get a word in now haha.
We have a lot of locals here I couldn’t hear before.
Heck maybe you’ll get a few contacts if you put it up.
Maybe you won’t it very well could br dead where you are, but maybe you can do some long range skip talking 👍
@@JohnnyNJones I'll give it a shot
Dead here where I'm at too. No locals at all, only skip, so if I can't talk to anyone in skipland, I'm not talking. Too bad, used to be pretty busy back in the day!
I had a trucker antenna 3 feet fiberglass set up in the living room for that Uniden pro510 xl and I did not get anything , not even static and I thought that that radio that was stored for over 20 years was actual dead.
I put up a makeshift horizonal dipole in the living room and I have static now and taked to 3 channels already. I have been talking 4 miles having the dipole antenna in the living room. I barley heared 1 station that was about 7 miles away , but I could not talk to it.
I will make this dipole and get it up the tree, but I still have to get me some coax and connectors and a string to hoist it up the tree etc.
Italy, Ireland, Scott land, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, AUSTRIA, ALASKA-(guy was rite in-front of the ANCHORAGE AIR POIRT parked next to the BEAR. Florida is not bad, but keep it goin there scooter lolol
You mean to tell me you talked to Alaska and Ireland on four watts AM?
Can this be used for uhf sorry new to this
Transmitting or receiving?
Transmitting antennas have to be a specific length.
If you are talking about receiving, then you can use any damn thing you want 👍
@@JohnnyNJones want to use it for my baufeng u 5r locally we a neighbourhood watch area is around 6 miles give and take
@@deon4562 that radio should transmit that far with a stock antenna. If not then you can create your own. Use the method i used in the video but use the frequency you are transmiting on in the calculations. Or you can google “antenna calculator” and it will do it for you.
Look into using repeaters for wide coverage 👍 just be careful, if you transmit without a ham license someone could complain, you could just stick to GMRS frequencies to avoid complaints from hams.
@@JohnnyNJones thx i will build that antenna busy with license still but cant wait crime is on the up in our area thx for the help
@@deon4562 no problem 👍 best of luck to you!
It wouldn't be difficult making a folded dipole, either, doing it that way.
I have a folded dipole on my ceiling made from a tape measure I think I got 30 miles at one point with it on a barefoot radio
It’s somewhere in my videos
A folded dipole has 300 ohm impedance it would need a 4:1 balun to match 50 ohms.
I heard Straight Jacket in there at 24:02 in NW Georgia! Waving at you. And i also have a really tall sweetgum tree, roughly 95 ft tall out back (which i hate). I may try this antenna up there and make a video of that as well! Nice video.
404/Roadblock/KD2MOT
73
Yeah, give it a shot and let me know how it goes. This thing works really well for me!
You should have used a "T-piece" for plumbing, but you were using what you had to hand. You can also cut up a plastic bread/cutting board and make a "T-piece" out of that and still have enough for the ends, however, you have to waterproof the joint in the middle.
Where did you find all that info, must have taken you a while to look all that up? :-P
Nicely done though, but looping the coax might have caused you a problem, but this time it didn't, what I would have done is either weave it through the pipe or just put a couple if tie-wraps through, you can also tie-wrap it at the joint and pull it both ways (put a tie-wrap on the coax, two tie-wraps through those and pull them through and out the ends (yeah, it takes a bit of working out). If you use a bread/cutting board you can drill holes and thread the coax through the holes, also the wire for the antenna, takes the strain. Best if you have the centre of the coax going up, but you failed to mention it.
A few coils of coax if you have a problem will help with SWR and common mode currents if you get bother (at antenna end).
Horizontal is not always bad, I have had some excellent copies on CB skip (in fact my best ones) when horizontal, but they are directional, maybe this helps as well though, but it is not so convenient as the antenna will not always be radiating the way you want it.
You want to give that control in the SWR meter a squirt of cleaner! (Not WD40 like I have seen some use!!!) [Sighs]
That was an excellent demo of how to make and use a wire dipole, well done, your mate must have kept you right :-P :-)
Oh if I had looked all this up I know it would’ve taken me at least several months to find that stuff out
But all those calculations and measurements and things are just stuff I learned over the past years studying and reading
I went from not knowing what SWR was 2 years ago to where I am now. Honestly I’m not very happy with myself because I could’ve studied more I will be getting my ham license on the 17th of this month if everything goes according to plan though
I did make a choke Balun out of my co-axle cable for my dipole on the ceiling but I do have a type 43 ferrite torrid Which helps a lot with RFI
And yes you can absolutely use a horizontal dipole to talk skip because as you know the ionosphere causes the polarization to get mixed up when it bounces
Personally I went with a vertical because I did not have skip in mind necessarily I had local contacts in mind
however it seemed to work very well for Skip and that was not even the point of the video so I’m happy with that
thanks for all your advice and there’s all kinds of ways you could’ve built this antenna for sure The plastic board is a good idea as well
I’m sure there’s plenty of improvements that could’ve been made but I think for what it is it worked very well for demonstration purposes like you said
And I appreciate the compliments that was very nice of you
Did you get your man cave cleaned out yet?
@@JohnnyNJones I am working on it, but it is a bit of a project, I have a big radio in there and it is taking up most of the bench, so until I find some info on it it will sit there taking up a lot of room.
It lights up, transmits, but although it appears to receive there is no sound and the audio iC and everything around it is working fine, so looking for a manual for it.
Cybernet Board PCBM059COX.
I found a on-line manual, but I have no signal in the Man Cave and though I printed of the set up for it, I can't print the schematic for it as it is a PDF and when you blow it up a bit it is unreadable.
He wants far to much for the manual, the manual is no out of print.
If I had one I would copy it and send it back, but I don't, so I can't.
The board is in many guises and many CBs, but this board was one of the last produced, so manuals appear to be few and far between.
I have to fix it, than it is going away to a Ham who is going to put it to someone to have it on 28Mhz 10 meters. He converts set, but only if they are working, he will not fix sets as he say it is impossible for him to get parts for old CBs.
I know where he is coming from as it is almost impossible to get some parts.
It is an Ham International Jumbo, but not a common model. It does not have the weird audio that other Ham Jumbos had.
On FM they had a strange dragging sound to the transmitted audio. This one does not have that problem.
However, I found a board marked Ham International that has been disconnected inside the set. I have no idea what this board was for, or who disconnected it and why, yet!
www.cbradio.nl/ham/Service_Manual_HAM_Jumbo_PTBM059COX_Homer_ENG.pdf
www.cbtricks.com/radios/ham_international/jumbo/graphics/ham_international_jumbo_sch.pdf
I found it two schematic links for jumbo mk1
just click them or copy and paste them in your browser
I don’t know if they will be clear enough for you but I can zoom in pretty well on them. The problem is they’re never going to fit on a standard printer size piece of paper
All I can think of is maybe print eight segmented pages of the image
By the way there are several boards on the schematic maybe the one you’re looking for that’s been disconnected will be on there
@@JohnnyNJones Thanks for trying, but I have that one, spot the slight difference. This one I already found and thought it was the one I needed, but it is PTBM059COX The one I have is PCBM059COX I couldn't read the schematic on this one either, I got the wife to print it, but hopeless.
I found the board I have, but you can't print it either, I also found this site, Hungarian, but it is all earlier boards, I could download if free for 5 days, but it is pointless, wrong boards!
I can't even find the site where I found a diagram, but it was unreadable.
Another site had it but you couldn't download from it. The diagram on it was useless as well.
Trust me to get the board that there was not a lot made of.
Maybe I am just going to have to start pulling things and checking around, there is just a lot of work!
I have a Nato 2000 200 channel set as well with a few faults in it, also a cobra GTLDX to fix for another ham.
Getting parts is almost impossible these days as most except the Cobra are Cybernet chassis, they now make solar panels, not CBs.
What a shame, all that expertise gone to waste!
Interesting OK here’s an idea for sourcing parts that I use that maybe will help you but I’m not sure it’s a longshot
I save this search “estate” in the category “consumer electronics”
What that usually means is that old hams that pass away I have their stuff posted under estate by their children
It will be tons of old electronics parts and boards
I just picked up a bunch today
I wish I could send you a photo but I can’t
just type in estate under the category consumer electronics
You’ll see what I’m talking about
Might help if the S meter worked....lol....
What does 150 barefoot radio mean?
150 is close to my location and barefoot radio means I’m using a radio without any form of extra power the standard “four watts” that’s why it’s an incredible feat.
@@JohnnyNJones I am still confused.
What is 150? You said it is close to your location....is it degrees of the earth etc...or coordinations and where would I find my location number ?
@@FloryJohann it means highway 150 which I live beside.
It’s a way of giving an approximate location without definite coordinates.
There’s no honest to God rule for it, some people use area codes, some people use states, some people use city and states.
As long as you can give someone an approximation to where you are, you can use whatever means you’d like to convey that.
@@JohnnyNJones Thank you.
@@FloryJohann No problem
Is that a Power Mic 🎙 we need to call CQCQ usually you’re on upper and lower side band tween 35 to 40 or other channels usually on 28 just just holler how about that DX Lynn D excellent that’s where we usually do I never hardly hear any by Cole CQ on regular 40 channel just when you got upper and lower side been radios just a thought guys But the antenna look good 10-4 shep out
Thanks for the information man, yeah I don't usually talk skip. So this is my first time actually making skip contacts. (except for the time i talked 600 miles in the truck)
So I'm a bit rusty on cb etiquette
I'm not using and power mic or amplifier. I don't use amps, I'm more of a QRP guy haha
Try 6? NNNNnnnnnnO. Channel 6 gots mega watts. It's fun to listen to. but boy do those guys run power. I think Channel 6 comes in through fillings in my teeth at times they are so loud.
Hahahaha 👍😂
Use a drone as antenna
Tell me more!
@@JohnnyNJones just a thought😎😄 use a mavic pro or air,it can hoist 1 pound I believe .
I have too much imagination i guess🤔🍺😂
Including a thin wire to power the drone from the ground (excluding the battery,saving weight.
There is no way I can figure this out!
Oh yes you can! It’s not really hard at all ☺️ just take two pieces of wire cut them iatabout 103 inches each and string it up in a tree 👍
Is that a garbage dump?
Yep it is
You had a great video until you had to cuss near the end you did so good.
Cussing just makes it better. Sentence enhancers.
@@freepressright no cussing shows stupid and uneducated thats all
@@thomasrogen3739 while I don't believe it is necessary to shower conversations in expletives, calling it uneducated is a subjective observation and not reflective of reality. Lots of well educated people swear and it has nothing to do with lack of a vocabulary. Although it may not be your preference, it isn't rooted in ignorance. Sorry.
@@thomasrogen3739 that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. Do you even know what uneducated means? I'll lay money I'm more educated than you are. Ill bet the farm that my background as a professional writer would dwarf your vocabulary through and through. And I swear. Explain to me how exactly that means that I am uneducated?
Uneducated would be to misappropriate a term that doesn't apply to someone -- such as calling someone who swears "uneducated."
@@freepressright If you can beat 3 Bachelors and 2 Masters you got me beat Bro. Love you man
Very simple antenna home Brew is better
It’s just as good as a name brand and a heck of a lot more fun that’s what I think.
Getting ready to put my 🚉 station back on the air wkrp johnny b good
LOL antenna polarization only matters if you are talking LOCAL ts someone. Once the signal hits and bounces off of the Ionosphere the polarization does not matter. A 500 mile contact is Sporadic E skip and happens every year because it is not caused by sunspots. Horizontally polarized antennas cancel out a lot of man made noise which is vertically polarized mostly. Just about ANY antenna can work skip, Sporadic E or F layer... I have worked skip many times with a Realistic walkie talkie on the extendable antenna. It's all in the propagation, not so much the radio and antenna. Also depends on the interference. You won't get heard on Ch 6 but if you find a clear channel with no strong stations and no bleed over from others (for you or the other station you're trying to talk to) you can talk skip as much as you want when the conditions are right. BTW I have the same Johnson in my collection. Interesting radios but really nothing special except that they're pretty rare now. They didn't put out that much power and had very small final transistors.
Yeah I’m talking about LOCAL when I’m talking about polarization.
A dipole in horizontal configuration can talk skip just fine, it’s the local contacts that mostly use vertical antennas that you’d have trouble talking to
((For any third-party viewers looking at these comments what he’s talking about is when a wave hits the ionosphere it gets all jumbled up and it’s polarization can become twisted and non-uniform so vertical antennas can talk to horizontal antennas))
Yes most man made noise is vertical, but I don’t have any problem with that
I’d rather talk to locals than try to DX
So how long have you been a HAM?
Imperial system invented by people who marry their cousins.😅
The british imperial system 👍
Not México. It is Spanish and sound like Cuban or Puerto Rico Spanish. Most like from Florida.
Hey maybe you’re right, but after I move that antenna I realize that every day here we have skip I can only hear Spanish-speaking CB users.
So if it were specifically Florida I think that would be at least one English conversation, but in my case especially if you check out my video I did recently on the president walker FCC
You’ll notice that I get absolutely nothing but Spanish-speaking users which is really interesting
Your videos pretty good but you talk way too much just get the job done. You waste too much time talking just show people what they’re doing and you’ll be all right. Talk way too much. Sorry that’s how I feel why people don’t watch the show that much is too much talking.
where in n.c. --- i,d go with a shortwave radio, lived florida 30 plus years, your mr. mygiver out their i see, got a 3oft pole on the way, yassu, nice brand, kindda pricey -- but good --
I have a short wave radio I’m going to make a video on, it’s very nice.
A 30 foot pool will do you well!
I’ve been to Florida before in August man it was HOT.
A longtime CB friend I just reconnected with showed me this RUclips channel about military radio antennas because everything is a kit everything can be made DIY in your backyard if you have enough space, or for the roof of your house. I wanted a Navajo Space Station in my kitchen to talk to some locals when I'm cleaning the kitchen and I did not want to hook it up turn my base antenna with an AV switch. So I had fun trying a couple different type and I just decided to run a flat dipole along the crown of the house. But these inverted V antennas are awesome if you live near mountains. Okay I'm giving you the link to lesson 5 in a playlist. My friend recommended starting with lesson 5 the rest you can do in any order they're not really chronological. Then you can have fun with the rest of the channel..
ruclips.net/video/wdrIOKXF7jE/видео.html
Clean that yard up.
What self respecting junk yard is clean?
HELLO ONE-FIVE -0 THIS IS NINE -ONE ONE OUT OF STOVALL N.C.
Hello there!! Waiving a hand at you 911!
Maybe one day I will wrap my head around all of this kind of stuff....😀🔎🏁☢🪠🧲