I have a few of those radial rings from A99s but had not figured out yet as to how to use them, you, my friend had the perfect solution. I also bought a bundle of 10 loaded whips much like you show here and find it GOOD TO KNOW that they work well. Being at my stage in life where multiple tries to find a solution is harder, your good work gives me the confidence to know a one-time build can work. CBing as its BEST, thank you again.
You should start prefabricating those things . Box up , for sale . I would buy one !! I might get you to build me one as a portable on the go unit and keep in my truck when I go on camping adventures. We’ll talk about that later 👍
Mine had some almost 3:1 swr, and I cleaned the heck out of it, it was seeming to be tuned for below channel 1, but I could not face cutting the vintage fiberglass, so I went full send. Put it on 3 20' fence pipes with tapers on one end and had a 58' tower in 8th grade. Had the hot finals going nation wide and groundwave to higher elevations of Illinois, Michigan and south of Kokomo, but could not get the funds together for SSB. Took it down real quick one day when an impressed neighbor warned me of a huge storm coming. Tower Down!!!
Looks like a home made stardust using the ground plane kit those physical set up translates to the low swr hitting the ,45° radials gives a good launch pad for ground communications if you plan on keeping that ant in air the connections could be sealed with the monkey tape ( don't know actual name) but is like layer tar stretchy once placed last forever we in catv techs used it to seal both open exposed and buried cables also known as " monkey snot" Love your vids remind me of the days I used to build myself but now limited physically Have good weekend good doing 398 Wis
You were quite an inspiration to my getting back into CB's again when I found your channel back in February and I thank you good sir. Cheers from 2112 here at the CB Lounge 2112!!
Hey there me mower junkie. Another fine antenna project. We had fantastic skip conditions to USA last Sunday infact I even tried to call to see if you were out there on 385 lsb but it was so splattery it was hard to hear anything. I actually got time to finish my slim Jim antenna I made from ladder line and my homemade Balun. And I must say it worked really well as I did work quite a few USA and Canada stations on 415 lsb as it was a bit quieter up there It was great 👍. Keep safe my friend. Good dx 73s .
Build a 3/4 wave vertical. You won't regret it. When I went from 1/4 to 3/4 wave on my 10 Meter, I could suddenly get out, hear and be heard. Course, volacity factor with the coax will do marvels. GOOD WORK Sir! AC9JU.
I have a 102 whip in the air about the same night as him and barfoot on my Lincoln 2+ at about 30 ish watts on side band I talk from Santee South Carolina up to Sumter and down to Summerville SC. I can do the same on am if it's not too much noise and fm is good too at about 20 watts. I don't usually turn it up that high on fm I usually turn on my kl 200p amp and radio set to about 1 watt input. I'd rather use amp life instead of radio life.
If you were to have all your antenna creations erected at one time, you might possibly be the recipient of a clandestine visit from the " Men In Black". 🤣 Love your creativity, M.J. Smilin', I'm off the key. 😑🦗
Didn't have a chance to contact you.... But walked into my workshop and heard you on 38 lsb here in Phoenix this morning... That antenna doing a great job... You were s7 for a while.... I'll be on later today.... 73's...
As a ham and not a CBer I've got to admit I really enjoy your videos. especially the antenna builds and experimentation. Keep up the great work Mower Junkie. 73 from Walt K4OGO! (Coastal Waves & Wires on CZcams)
I'm in the process of building a simple 1/4 wave GP antenna for 6 meters (50 Mhz) Ham radio. The ground planes will be slightly longer than the radiator by a couple of inches. (5% I think). This would apply equally to 27 Mhz. Attenuated GP's are as bad as loaded radiating elements. While your playing antennas try a 5/8 wave or better still a .64 (point 64) wavelength...using the soil as the ground. I did it on CB about 40 years ago and the low angle radiation is ideal for long range 'local' stuff. Lay wires underground if you wish...it does help with earthing. 73.
CZcams replayed this and knowing from your later videos of yours you have recently worked the UK, EU, and Australia this ground plain favoring the low end could let you work New Zealand from 26, 330 up remembering their channels are on the 0s, not the 5s. The best time could be around sundown or sunup either end. Tune around and see if you hear anyone. Also, Germany has a group of 40 channels below 1 also, of course, they also use the same 40 as the USA. traffic is still light so finding a quiet spot isn't hard yet, but it likely will be before long as folks realize skip is back more often. I might be wrong and just using 36-40 may be quiet enough that tuning around is unnecessary. I love to go off the beaten trail. I loved finding an odd station on some oddball frequency but back then there were so many users working your mobile a mile away was hard. The 23 legal and the slot at 15A sideband was all we had unless we got a ham rig. No so-called import radios were available. Crystals gave you 4 channels but took away others until the channel boxes or VFOs became available.
Hey Mower Junky, Great Job Sir. Putting a 1/4 wave groundplane together. Got about 102" of material for the radiator and 4 ground radials. Was sweatin' all the formula measurements (too short on the radials), but now after seeing your SWR w/4' radials, going to put It up and see how it does. Thank you.
Ok Tnx, MJ, Was reading comments and kinda figured that out. I might get some bigger tubing to attach to the mount and bend those to 45 degrees to add the 10" each radial. 73
Mower Junkie...Another great antenna!! I want to put a vertical antenna on the back of my garage but might have to wait until spring now because there's a tree in the way. Is it possible to attach radials to my vertical V dipole antenna that I have in my garage and how would you install them? Thanks!
You are a great fabricator wished I could build antennas half as good as u but hey maybe u try 3 element wire quad I'm working on one but I can't make mine look half as good as you
Wondering about making a small ground plane for a regular ground plane antenna used on a big jobsite boombox. How big do they need to be? can you make a miniature one?
Hey this, just a thought you know the ground planes could you take a boat somewhere mounted on a plastic pipe then take wire 100 about 102 inches wrapped around that PC pipe and someway mounted just like you got those ground plains boat to that and then you know I’m talking about you take the ground wire three pieces 102, 103 incheswrapped around the pipe tape it up and some mounted on a bolt screw on the ground like that would that work? I’m curious about making one.
If you have not already done it, you will need to waterproof the coax connections, if not water will ingress and affect the coax and SWR. Yes, I realise (realize) it is only for test, but just in case someone else tries to copy it. By the way, out first antennas we were allowed to use were the same design, except we were only allowed to put a 1.5mtr whip on top :-( UK Government rules. The Plunkers!
Was the bottom tube part of the ground plane and have any specific length or was that just long enough to act as an anchor point and all grounding was done by the radials?
great video. Although i prefer you build the ground planes yourself, including mounting kit, full size over wire wound. Using ready made is only half home brew.😉
Again YT BROUGHT YOU BACK! If YOU co-phased these unlike the recently used loaded whips, it should be broad banded better and have more gain. If you wanted longer radials, just get some stiff #8 aluminum ground wire cut the same length of the radiator and use a plastic arm to hold at 45 degrees. Your setup will out talk a ss whip because aluminum is better. Not strong enough for a mobile at 54mph but better as you use it. DX Commander played around with an all wire version of this on an 18 meter pole and just think being at 60 feet over 15 feet? I plan to order his 18 meter pole and use it.
I'm not certain on how to ask this question but does the 102 length measure account for the length of aluminum that goes into each section or does only the outside surface of the element count towards the 102 inches?
I would like to finish a antenna build i started a year ago , i'm not experienced enough i guess when it comes to getting the 4 ft. Fiberglass 1/4 wave antennas . When i ask if a big C. B. Sales store about getting them they dont have an answer .... I have looked on E bay and i dont see any of the 4 ft' ers mentioned as being 1/4 wave . I dont see any sence in guessing if their right for the build . ??? Inexperience .
I like that antenna I was gonna try to do that but the two ground planes it’s gonna be I thought maybe trying to the two stainless 102 stainless whip for two sides and I got some aluminum pipe for the middle I was going to try that and see what it does
New to cb's. What books or web page would you suggest for antennas. I want to build my own, just for something to do. I was thinking on a 102" whip and making my own ground plane, any suggestions?
Is that my antenna? Oh wait. I need a house first. lol I did see a house in Sumter that had a tower right next to the house. Had a tv antenna on it. Looked about 30 feet tall.
@@MowerJunkie One question: I've seen many listings where the homes have a pole with a streetlight on it in the backyard. Is that a town owned pole? Or private and can be used as a mast for, oh say...... a CB antenna? lol
So, with the 20 watts you narrated that your TPO was (while AM was displayed) it must’ve been burning 16 watts of loss in the cable for an ERP of 4 watts, right?
Great job! I made many long distance dx back in the day on a very similar setup! Love it!
I have a few of those radial rings from A99s but had not figured out yet as to how to use them, you, my friend had the perfect solution. I also bought a bundle of 10 loaded whips much like you show here and find it GOOD TO KNOW that they work well. Being at my stage in life where multiple tries to find a solution is harder, your good work gives me the confidence to know a one-time build can work. CBing as its BEST, thank you again.
Looks like a good one! Seemed relatively easy to put together. Clever use of the parts that hold it all together ❤️😊
You should start prefabricating those things . Box up , for sale . I would buy one !!
I might get you to build me one as a portable on the go unit and keep in my truck when I go on camping adventures. We’ll talk about that later 👍
Awesome ,one of these days im going to build myself a Starduster.I had one back in the 70s and it worked very good.
Mine had some almost 3:1 swr, and I cleaned the heck out of it, it was seeming to be tuned for below channel 1, but I could not face cutting the vintage fiberglass, so I went full send.
Put it on 3 20' fence pipes with tapers on one end and had a 58' tower in 8th grade. Had the hot finals going nation wide and groundwave to higher elevations of Illinois, Michigan and south of Kokomo, but could not get the funds together for SSB. Took it down real quick one day when an impressed neighbor warned me of a huge storm coming. Tower Down!!!
Looks like a home made stardust using the ground plane kit those physical set up translates to the low swr hitting the ,45° radials gives a good launch pad for ground communications if you plan on keeping that ant in air the connections could be sealed with the monkey tape ( don't know actual name) but is like layer tar stretchy once placed last forever we in catv techs used it to seal both open exposed and buried cables also known as " monkey snot"
Love your vids remind me of the days I used to build myself but now limited physically
Have good weekend good doing 398 Wis
Well done 151 on your ground plane. You are building up a nice resume with regards to antenna building. Keep up the good work. 73, 770 RI.
You were quite an inspiration to my getting back into CB's again when I found your channel back in February and I thank you good sir. Cheers from 2112 here at the CB Lounge 2112!!
Copy that 2112, I'm glad I was able to remind You how much fun CB radio is! Take care, 73's from 151 SC.
I love ground plane antennas! This is my favorite antennas.
Hey there me mower junkie. Another fine antenna project. We had fantastic skip conditions to USA last Sunday infact I even tried to call to see if you were out there on 385 lsb but it was so splattery it was hard to hear anything. I actually got time to finish my slim Jim antenna I made from ladder line and my homemade Balun. And I must say it worked really well as I did work quite a few USA and Canada stations on 415 lsb as it was a bit quieter up there It was great 👍. Keep safe my friend. Good dx 73s .
I love revisiting these older antenna builds !
Nice build! Looks like it will hold up well in the weather.
Good build. Great fabrication !
Looks great in the air man!😃
I've made VERY similar before and I love these simple Beefy and CHONKY antennas. Thick radiator and no coils ....very wide band
Nice work!
I love your videos seventy threes from bandit south central KY I wished it hadn't been such wet cold weather up hear I could work on my wire antennas
Awsome antenna. Been looking for an idea like this. On a tight budget, but have a 45ft tower ready to use
Good stuff MJ. Thanks
I jump into the inosphere with 1/4 wave and it has worked very well
Build a 3/4 wave vertical. You won't regret it. When I went from 1/4 to 3/4 wave on my 10 Meter, I could suddenly get out, hear and be heard. Course, volacity factor with the coax will do marvels. GOOD WORK Sir! AC9JU.
I have a 102 whip in the air about the same night as him and barfoot on my Lincoln 2+ at about 30 ish watts on side band I talk from Santee South Carolina up to Sumter and down to Summerville SC. I can do the same on am if it's not too much noise and fm is good too at about 20 watts. I don't usually turn it up that high on fm I usually turn on my kl 200p amp and radio set to about 1 watt input. I'd rather use amp life instead of radio life.
Can you elaborate on the VF?
Very cool! Maybe I can catch you on that one when the skip allows. 73's 519 Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
If you were to have all your antenna creations erected at one time, you might possibly be the recipient of a clandestine visit from the " Men In Black". 🤣 Love your creativity, M.J.
Smilin', I'm off the key. 😑🦗
Didn't have a chance to contact you.... But walked into my workshop and heard you on 38 lsb here in Phoenix this morning... That antenna doing a great job... You were s7 for a while.... I'll be on later today.... 73's...
That's awesome! Thanks for letting Me know. Take care, 73's from 151 SC.
As a ham and not a CBer I've got to admit I really enjoy your videos. especially the antenna builds and experimentation. Keep up the great work Mower Junkie. 73 from Walt K4OGO! (Coastal Waves & Wires on CZcams)
Thank You so much. Take care, 73's from 151 SC.
I'm in the process of building a simple 1/4 wave GP antenna for 6 meters (50 Mhz) Ham radio. The ground planes will be slightly longer than the radiator by a couple of inches. (5% I think). This would apply equally to 27 Mhz. Attenuated GP's are as bad as loaded radiating elements. While your playing antennas try a 5/8 wave or better still a .64 (point 64) wavelength...using the soil as the ground. I did it on CB about 40 years ago and the low angle radiation is ideal for long range 'local' stuff. Lay wires underground if you wish...it does help with earthing. 73.
That is too cool man!
Nice antenna mr mower junkie I made one with 102 inch whips for the ground plane the swr was very low
Been wondering where you been lol . Need some more of your skip clips :)
Excellent
CZcams replayed this and knowing from your later videos of yours you have recently worked the UK, EU, and Australia this ground plain favoring the low end could let you work New Zealand from 26, 330 up remembering their channels are on the 0s, not the 5s. The best time could be around sundown or sunup either end. Tune around and see if you hear anyone. Also, Germany has a group of 40 channels below 1 also, of course, they also use the same 40 as the USA. traffic is still light so finding a quiet spot isn't hard yet, but it likely will be before long as folks realize skip is back more often.
I might be wrong and just using 36-40 may be quiet enough that tuning around is unnecessary. I love to go off the beaten trail. I loved finding an odd station on some oddball frequency but back then there were so many users working your mobile a mile away was hard. The 23 legal and the slot at 15A sideband was all we had unless we got a ham rig. No so-called import radios were available. Crystals gave you 4 channels but took away others until the channel boxes or VFOs became available.
Great antenna 73's✌😎
Thanks 👍
Hey Mower Junky, Great Job Sir. Putting a 1/4 wave groundplane together. Got about 102" of material for the radiator and 4 ground radials. Was sweatin' all the formula measurements (too short on the radials), but now after seeing your SWR w/4' radials, going to put It up and see how it does. Thank you.
keep in mind that my radials are 1/4 wave antennas, not just 4 foot rods. Good luck with your build. 73's
Ok Tnx, MJ, Was reading comments and kinda figured that out. I might get some bigger tubing to attach to the mount and bend those to 45 degrees to add the 10" each radial. 73
That looked like some of the aluminum I donated LOL! Great antenna. I heard you way over here on it.
Yup! I told You I would put them to good use.
The Antron 99 ground plane kit would probably work good too. The fiberglass whips are 102 inches.
Mower Junkie...Another great antenna!! I want to put a vertical antenna on the back of my garage but might have to wait until spring now because there's a tree in the way.
Is it possible to attach radials to my vertical V dipole antenna that I have in my garage and how would you install them? Thanks!
What coax did you use. The rg8x i have scene has a solid copper cent
Mower Junkie Tv on my afternoon off 👏👏
World Wide 151 , bump bump
Thanks Dallas.
You are a great fabricator wished I could build antennas half as good as u but hey maybe u try 3 element wire quad I'm working on one but I can't make mine look half as good as you
Wondering about making a small ground plane for a regular ground plane antenna used on a big jobsite boombox. How big do they need to be? can you make a miniature one?
That was very interesting and would be very nice if I can get some messure ments please?
Great built, can you put a gp ring kit on a tram 1499
Are you still using it? I was just wondering how well it's holding up.
Do we ever have any idea of what we are going to do with our creations. Keep up the great work. 974 Allan in NJ
Hey this, just a thought you know the ground planes could you take a boat somewhere mounted on a plastic pipe then take wire 100 about 102 inches wrapped around that PC pipe and someway mounted just like you got those ground plains boat to that and then you know I’m talking about you take the ground wire three pieces 102, 103 incheswrapped around the pipe tape it up and some mounted on a bolt screw on the ground like that would that work? I’m curious about making one.
If you have not already done it, you will need to waterproof the coax connections, if not water will ingress and affect the coax and SWR. Yes, I realise (realize) it is only for test, but just in case someone else tries to copy it.
By the way, out first antennas we were allowed to use were the same design, except we were only allowed to put a 1.5mtr whip on top :-( UK Government rules. The Plunkers!
Do you have it wireless?? Nice job
Was the bottom tube part of the ground plane and have any specific length or was that just long enough to act as an anchor point and all grounding was done by the radials?
the bottom pole is just for mounting, it can be any length.
great video. Although i prefer you build the ground planes yourself, including mounting kit, full size over wire wound. Using ready made is only half home brew.😉
I agree, But this 1/2 homemade did work well. Thanks for watching, 73's from 151 SC.
Again YT BROUGHT YOU BACK! If YOU co-phased these unlike the recently used loaded whips, it should be broad banded better and have more gain. If you wanted longer radials, just get some stiff #8 aluminum ground wire cut the same length of the radiator and use a plastic arm to hold at 45 degrees. Your setup will out talk a ss whip because aluminum is better. Not strong enough for a mobile at 54mph but better as you use it. DX Commander played around with an all wire version of this on an 18 meter pole and just think being at 60 feet over 15 feet? I plan to order his 18 meter pole and use it.
I'm not certain on how to ask this question but does the 102 length measure account for the length of aluminum that goes into each section or does only the outside surface of the element count towards the 102 inches?
The assembled length is 102" long. it can be done with 1 pipe 102" long, but I used what I had. Thanks for watching, Take care.
I would like to finish a antenna build i started a year ago , i'm not experienced enough i guess when it comes to getting the 4 ft. Fiberglass 1/4 wave antennas . When i ask if a big C. B. Sales store about getting them they dont have an answer ....
I have looked on E bay and i dont see any of the 4 ft' ers mentioned as being 1/4 wave .
I dont see any sence in guessing if their right for the build .
???
Inexperience .
I like that antenna I was gonna try to do that but the two ground planes it’s gonna be I thought maybe trying to the two stainless 102 stainless whip for two sides and I got some aluminum pipe for the middle I was going to try that and see what it does
That should work very well. I've made a few ground planes with only 2 radials, and they worked great. Take care Shep, 73's
New to cb's. What books or web page would you suggest for antennas. I want to build my own, just for something to do. I was thinking on a 102" whip and making my own ground plane, any suggestions?
You could start with this playlist, it's all the antennas I've built. czcams.com/play/PLWfG3O4eXUZxP8ifrpnHK5Fxz-2SsavtK.html
Beauty is but in the eye of the beholder. Wish I had some local CB ops to talk to none left around here.
I think it's better than 1/4 wave. What's your math ? How long is everything ?
Yeah
We're u get parts for that
A "piece of cake" and a "slice of pipe".
Great built. Can galvanized wire use for gp
Yes you can, but you might have to clean the wire where it connects to the antenna.
Ok
What do you do with all this antennas that you build when you build a new one
They go into my collection until I need them again. Thanks for watching, 73's
@@MowerJunkie I’m wanting to build me one to pair up with my QT 60 but not sure what to build any suggestions
Is that my antenna? Oh wait. I need a house first. lol I did see a house in Sumter that had a tower right next to the house. Had a tv antenna on it. Looked about 30 feet tall.
it's so sad, When You see a good tower going to waste! A TV antenna?! What were they thinking! Take care Joe, 73's from 151 SC.
@@MowerJunkie One question: I've seen many listings where the homes have a pole with a streetlight on it in the backyard. Is that a town owned pole? Or private and can be used as a mast for, oh say...... a CB antenna? lol
@@JoeR203 I have 1 of those light poles 4 feet away from my garage, But unfortunately the power company owns the pole.
what about a j pole? No need to seperate the whip, as the j part is the feed point.
a J-pole is on my to do list, hopefully I'll build it soon.
The top main element looks a lot longer then 108 inches amd I missing something?
the top element is actually 102.5" long. 108" is for 26 mhz. The equation I used is, 468 / 27.385.
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I was first great video🖐️😀
Thanks for watching, 73's from 151 SC.
I thought CB is maximum of 4 watts ???
4 watts on AM, and 12 watts on SSB
So, with the 20 watts you narrated that your TPO was (while AM was displayed) it must’ve been burning 16 watts of loss in the cable for an ERP of 4 watts, right?
If he wasn't talking on LSB, he wouldn't of made the 30 miles. On AM, he might get across town.
I have a Galaxy DX 2547 base (9watt dead key 20 swing) hook to a antron-99 at 38' and I can talk 50/65 mile. My elevation is 245'. Not ssb.
Another great job "John" 73's from "Michael" 2NY157/wws-3703 in the Bronx