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Post by SIX-SHOOTER on Dec 15, 2010 20:09:15 GMT -5
Well I have been BLESSED "AGAIN".I have an old high school friend who I have not seen since high school(1978)just stop by a couple of weeks ago & when he saw all of my radio gear he mentioned his dads old CB antenna was still in his moms garage.We checked it out & found that it's an A/S MS119 SUPER SCANNER.I was able to buy it for $50 from his mother.It did NOT have the control box but I bought one off of Craigslist for $10 shipped.I think $60 is a GREAT DEAL on this antenna & it brings back memories of when I was a kid with my SUPER SCANNER & TRAM D-201(hand wired).This time I will have a choice of rigs to run with it(TRAM D-201-hand wired,DAK MK IX,or UNIDEN WASHINGTON). I am looking forward to getting it put together & up in the air at 50 ft. where it should play REALLY NICE for me. }:>)  Look forward to working YOU on it REALLY SOON! SIX-SHOOTER UNIT 66 NORTH FLORIDA |
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Post by homerbb on Dec 16, 2010 9:25:44 GMT -5
I am jealous. Maybe I'll get to talk a little skip with you on it and enjoy it myself.. Great find!
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Post by zman on Dec 16, 2010 13:49:59 GMT -5
There are a few of these still up around here. maybe i need to see if the owners will sell them.
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Post by cbrown on Dec 17, 2010 10:47:39 GMT -5
One of the guys in our group ran one as a spotter for his Moonraker antenna.
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Post by dgtr43 on Mar 12, 2012 19:34:11 GMT -5
Isn't this antenna more of just (having one) than performance because of today's base/beam set-ups?
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Post by Sandbagger on Mar 12, 2012 21:15:19 GMT -5
Isn't this antenna more of just (having one) than performance because of today's base/beam set-ups? I was never impressed with the performance of the Super Scanner. I've known people who had them years ago, and they worked ok for what they were. But what they were was a compromise antenna. As an omni, it was not as good as a full 5/8th wave, and as a beam, it was not as strong as a 3 element or PDL quad-type antenna. The beam mode would outdo a 5/8th wave omni, but not by all that much. side and back rejection of the beam mode was only about 12db. What a lot of people liked them for was as a "spotter" beam for a larger beam antenna. I knew guys who used a Super Scanner as their omni alongside a moonraker or some other large beam. They would dial the super scanner around quickly to get a rough direction, and then point the big beam in the general direction and home in more exactly. The other thing you had to watch out for is how much power you were running through them. The older version used a coax tuning stub to match the impedence to 50 ohms in the omni mode. Those could handle 500 watts or more without issue. You could run 1.5 KW in the beam mode. But if you had a "newer" design, without the coax tuning stub, it used an internal matching device, and it could only take about 50 watts in the omni mode. You could still run 1.5 KW in the beam mode, but if you accidently forgot one time and switched to omni while the power was up....... OOOPS! |
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Post by cbrown on Mar 13, 2012 8:29:07 GMT -5
Which happened a lot with that later design.
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Post by SIX-SHOOTER on May 9, 2017 15:46:15 GMT -5
I sold the Super Scanner to a fellow who said he was doing a Mod on it so that the elements would be Horizontal.I never heard from him again so I have no idea if he completed the project or not & how it worked out if he did.Been so long ow I can't even remember who he was? Rough getting old I think but I can't remember. LOL
Six-Shooter
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Look forward to working YOU on it REALLY SOON!
