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Title: Mobile whip antennas
Post by: Static_Mantra on February 26, 2017, 1541 UTC

I have one of these 40M mobile whips that was in the garage for 10 years that I never really tried/used, and thought I'd give it a shot. It actually works good with my SDRPlay. Have it on 3rd story balcony apartment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4GafiHtuCI

Title: Re: Mobile whip antennas
Post by: Josh on February 26, 2017, 1800 UTC

That worked out pretty fair, better than I thought, but I'm wondering what's using up all that cpu time?

Title: Re: Mobile whip antennas
Post by: Static_Mantra on February 26, 2017, 1928 UTC

every time i record a video, it goes up.

Title: Re: Mobile whip antennas
Post by: Duffer on February 27, 2017, 0903 UTC

Yeah, they are great! (sorry!)

Title: Re: Mobile whip antennas
Post by: Josh on February 27, 2017, 1657 UTC

Does it have a counterpoise? If not it might get you better sigs if it did. The downstairs neighbors might try to grab it though, you know how they are.