The DX Blaster antenna may seem a little pricy at first but when you realize that your getting the same amount of wire as 6 conventional dipole antennas, the…
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A small hand held portable amateur radio dual band 2 meter / 70 cm satellite antenna.
Easy to build and simple to use.
Great work Dave… As always, I enjoy your videos, hope to work you on the
bands some day.
Very good video and information! Thank’s a lot! 73! de UT1ZZ
you don’t need an RF trap?
You know what I’d like to see? You do a lot of Yagi antennas, and I think
you must model these up before you build them. For example, you give an
example of wanting to design for a 70cm Yagi with 4 directors spaced 5
inches apart.
I’d love to see how you sit down with the computer to model something like
this. I can drill holes in aluminum, but sitting down to create a design,
that’s something I’d appreciate a bit of insight into.
nice antenna, but isn’t it a pain in the arse to use the imperial units.
I live in Sweden and here we use the metric system. :)
Your sat videos have all been great. I don’t know if it’s the recording or
??? but your RX signal seemed a bit stronger with this antenna than the
others. Good job on using the foam to protect the coax…reminded me of my
“Home Brew J-pole” video. Hope to catch you on a satellite soon & 73!
KF7TOV
Easy to build and simple to use.
Hi Dave the weather is good to try out a bottom loaded CB antenna – Fred.
I am an amateur Amateur working 2 meters to start off. I just started
working the band today- spent 3 hours driving around my area with my Icom
v80. I find your channel very interesting and motivational. Keep it up. 73,
Joe KC3BXZ.
sir can’t see your swr reading…
Easy to build and simple to use.
Awesome!
That is a huge antenna, sure it won’t work 160 meters? By the way, loved
watching you on Doomsday Preppers. Hope to have a QSO with ya some day.
Mike//W8MLD
I’ll ignore your terrible spelling and wholeheartedly agree with you. You
are not worth it.
ROFL at 03:12
@radiobigman47 that is a common misconseption about vertical’s … they are
very labor intencive to install properly and many people take shortcuts and
get more noise
Leave that antenna up for a couple years and you’ll see how it can be
described as ‘perishable’
I have the 40 meter version and it has been a great antenna. The only
problem I have had is the hoops come apart after a year or so. I gorilla
glued them back together and they have been fine since.
Dave – excellent video! Well, I am officially jealous. That is quite an
antenna farm you have underway. The DX Blaster sure seems to make a
difference. Very cool shack by the way. I wish I was local as I would have
been over there in a heartbeat to lend a hand getting that antenna up in
the air. Alright sir, keep up the good work and excellent videos. I am
still looking forward to a QSO . . . need to get that General ticket and
plug something in the HF port of my 857D. 73!
Good to see you got outside for a vid Realy like your vids just not into
the radio stuff, but keep it up still good info
Very interesting, thanks. You deserve a discount from MVW for that
excellent advertising Thanks
I thought it was fantastic.. David please go ahead and destroy that box.. I
won’t need it back..
theirs going to be a big change over the dipole and far as a cage go’s it
just a broadband dipole put up a dipole up for 3823 and you will not see
that much change me and w4hv talked about this but he says you will have
more gain over a single dipole but wean you get back to it a dipole is a
dipole
Simple comment. The rings do not need to be made of an insulating material.
They can be made from steel such as a length of 1/8″ stainless steel
welding rod made into a hoop. I made a VHF droopy ground plane antenna and
made a caged element stinger for the top. The results were really neat.
Pretty much the same gain but bandwidth was really quite wide, just as I
expected. One thing to keep in mind is the stinger will need to be trimmed
down shorter. A caged dipole, same, it will be shorter.
@dsarti1 the 43ft vertical will pick up a lot more qrm too you need to try
a 75 meter full wave loop i live just north of you here in Indiana and the
loop works the best you dont get as much summer time qrm with it and you
going to get more real gain out of it 73’s dont stop with the videos
@chopshop254 Whoever is telling you negatives must not own one of these.
There are currently over 2950 of them in the field. We have not had an
antenna returned as yet. Some have been out there for 4 years at this
point. Hey, its got a money back guarantee! David says he has had it for a
month on the stuff below the video.
Everything’s perishable Dave.
are you a trucker?
I see by the web site that they no longer will answer the phone or answer
emails, and are not selling the cage antenna any more.
Sure would like to get a 40 meter cage antenna.
VA3KBC
START FROM THE LOWER POINT WHEN USING ELECTRICAL TAPE
I’m impressed. I think I may ne contacting DX to pick one of those up (and
yes, I say your disclaimer at the beginning).
Does the term, bariatric surgery come to mind? He is getting winded from
walking the length of a 1/2-wave 80 meter antenna…Please see to your
health. We are worried for you…
I love his dogs but I think one of them peed on the box. Great review!
Who was waiting for the dog to PISS on the box when the video started lolol
got your call sign by searching on QRZ, nice video. hope to catch you down
the log sometime brother. 73. N5XTC
I don’t know that fella installing the antenna… But you seem like a
really cool guy.. You are deathly overweight Please help yourself to lose
pounds.. You are not going to live that much longer, I wish I could be a
friend to you..