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hi there people,
i must confess now "i yes me has forgot ...is a thunderpole 5/8 wave hi gain, self s/w/r-ing,

i used to have a silver rod and also a gap 5/8wave that was ...but i cant remember if the silver rod 5/8 wave hi gain or as thay call it on here a thunderpole 5/8 wave hi gain is ????

can some one please help me,
im getting lazy and all i want to do is put up a 5/8 wave hi gain antenna and not have to keep putting it up and pulling it down to do the dam s/w/r/

i did all that on my serio 2016...and man what a paing in the bum that was.......
so can some one please help me out there?????

thank you to any replies .zebra3!!!!

NO IT AIN'T you have to swr it up and down till you get it right

stampman wrote:NO IT AIN'T you have to swr it up and down till you get it right

is there an antenna out there on the market that doesent need s/w/r-ing in that is a 5/8 wave ?????

i use a wet piece of string and a atu no tuning needed

fatfinger wrote:i use a wet piece of string and a atu no tuning needed

well you would use a wet piece of string.becouse you dont get any sun over there do you !!!!
to dry it out,
forgoten what its like to wake up to another gray dark day.....when all we get over here is sun shine from sun up to sun down !!!!
and where the skip run's 24/7 day in day out!!!

no all antenna need swringas far as i know if they say ready swred then 99 times out of 100 the dont work well

zebra3 wrote:

fatfinger wrote:i use a wet piece of string and a atu no tuning needed

well you would use a wet piece of string.becouse you dont get any sun over there do you !!!!
to dry it out,
forgoten what its like to wake up to another gray dark day.....when all we get over here is sun shine from sun up to sun down !!!!
and where the skip run's 24/7 day in day out!!!

it was nice and sunny 2day
but pissed it down after dinner
we get 0 skip 24/7 and cold wet weather its not fair

well yeah sorting the swr out on home base antenas is no fun up and down ladders like a yoyo and wasteing a day at it can get very annoying

lets see how about this one The 'Thunderpole 5/8 wave Hy-gain' has 3 ground planes on the bottom. This allows it to perform better on transmit than the standard 5/8 wave.

link as well,

http://www.thunderpole.co.uk/5-8wave.htm

or how about this beuty http://www.thunderpole.co.uk/cte-spectrum-1600.htm and do you have to swr all big home base antenas in or are some already pre tuned fatfinger or stampman

The Imax 2000 was supposed to be pre-turned but I know mine wasn't very good. Ended up winding it's turning rings down quite a bit.

antron 99 is pretty close to specs but you still need the meter on it