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As soon as I can get some from the local ham club over to see my limitations with property and the damned HOA, I plan on getting a better antenna setup.
I am using the buddistick just to get on the air until i can design a better antenna with the local ham operators
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Congrats OP... If I could make a suggestion its to try to get a better antenna than the Buddistick. That is going to be your main limitation with that setup. I'd look into any sort of wire antenna as your next step.
As soon as I can get some from the local ham club over to see my limitations with property and the damned HOA, I plan on getting a better antenna setup.
I am using the buddistick just to get on the air until i can design a better antenna with the local ham operators
The Buddistick is a very good antenna.
Depending on what band you are on, it may be a full sized antenna. As it comes out of the box, from what I just read on their website, it is going to be loaded on almost all the bands, but this isn't a real big deal. If you elevate it and put out some tuned radials, it will work well. It will be better than a mobile whip if nothing else because you will have full sized, tuned radials.
The thing I like about Buddipole antennas is that by adding to the stuff you already have (adding more parts) you can make it into all kinds of different antennas. The Buddipole antennas are widely misunderstood, they are NOT some kind of gimmick: you are building antennas straight out of the ARRL antenna handbook. You can get these parts in different ways: you can buy them from Buddipole, you can homebrew them, and you can add stuff like wire to them.
I have owned a Buddipole for years and have had a lot of fun with it.
I have lived in a place with an HOA and it did make ham radio difficult. I think the Buddistick is one good solution to the problem.
I look forward to hearing you on the air. Congrats on the new station.