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Post by mark4 on May 13, 2020 21:56:13 GMT -5
Attachment Deleted A few years ago I acquired a NOS Homing Pigeon. Used one as a kid for awhile until the .64 Wave Radio Shack antenna went up. Anybody else use one of these?
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Post by ytradio on May 14, 2020 10:03:59 GMT -5
Very interesting, I have never seen or heard of one. Do you know what it actually is? I mean a loaded vertical dipole, or a loaded vertical without radials?
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Post by Sandbagger on May 14, 2020 17:06:23 GMT -5
View Attachment A few years ago I acquired a NOS Homing Pigeon. Used one as a kid for awhile until the .64 Wave Radio Shack antenna went up. Anybody else use one of these? Definitely an electrically shortened antenna. Can't imagine that it would perform all that well from inside a building. |
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Post by cbrown on May 20, 2020 12:09:47 GMT -5
]Definitely an electrically shortened antenna. Can't imagine that it would perform all that well from inside a building. They didn't work well at all. A friend had one, he was renting a room in a house and wanted to put up an antenna (Starduster) but the landlord wouldn't allow it, didn't want holes in the roof from a tripod mount and when we said we could attach it to the existing chimney, he said it would ruin the bricks & mortar. He bought one of these and tried it, it was worse then transmitting from his car. We finally hid a dipole in the trees, which worked way better. |
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Post by MonkeyMan on May 22, 2020 9:31:33 GMT -5
Looks like the better part of a lamp my grandmother had in her living room.  |
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Post by 4sight on Sept 15, 2020 21:04:19 GMT -5
A few years ago I acquired a NOS Homing Pigeon. Used one as a kid for awhile until the .64 Wave Radio Shack antenna went up. Anybody else use one of these? I had one many moons ago. Worked fairly well for me back then. I have actually been looking for one now that I live in a strict HOA. |
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Post by cbrown on Sept 16, 2020 13:54:33 GMT -5
I had one many moons ago. Worked fairly well for me back then. I have actually been looking for one now that I live in a strict HOA. You'd be better off making a flagpole antenna. |
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Post by peacemaker656 on Oct 30, 2020 0:33:11 GMT -5
A few years ago I acquired a NOS Homing Pigeon. Used one as a kid for awhile until the .64 Wave Radio Shack antenna went up. Anybody else use one of these? I had one many moons ago. Worked fairly well for me back then. I have actually been looking for one now that I live in a strict HOA. If you have a decent tree in your HOA yard get some camo paint and a A-99 and stick it up in the tree. Camo your coax too that comes down the tree and then bury what needs to run across the yard. Theres more than a couple guys around here that have done that and it works extremely well. Attic mount dipoles are ok but having an outside antenna is even better. A 102" whip on the rain gutter can work well too. The gutter itself will work as a ground plane if you get a good connection otherwise just add at least 108" of wire to your mount and put it inside the gutter. You can just about mount a whip to anything and get it to work. I did that many times over the years when living in apartment complexes. I was able to talk about 30 to 40 miles barefoot on a Royce 1-641 doing 15 pep AM and 19pep SSB. With the new export radios doing 30 or more watts you could talk all over. Or a good used ham rig doing a 100. Whatever your fancy. 73's |
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Post by SIX-SHOOTER on Oct 31, 2020 17:27:00 GMT -5
I had one in some stuff that came from a friends CB Shop when he passed away & the SWR was not great nor was the performance.I think a good mag mount sitting on a metal pie pan,refrigerator,washing machine or other metal object would work better.If you lived in a high Rise apartment maybe it would be OK but I don't know what the power rating is either but it can't be much the way it was built.
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