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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Dewalt (tool company) has gotten into the antenna game.

Posted: 7/10/2014 5:00:55 PM EDT

Who knew...

It won't stop raining, so don't hate on the yard

Posted: 7/10/2014 5:12:02 PM EDT

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signal report ?

Posted: 7/10/2014 5:24:04 PM EDT

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Heavy, but slick, slick, slick!

Posted: 7/10/2014 5:31:33 PM EDT

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Fo Sho!

Posted: 7/10/2014 5:38:36 PM EDT

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Cool! What are they calling it?

Posted: 7/10/2014 5:45:26 PM EDT

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"The taped crusader" 200' model.

Posted: 7/10/2014 6:11:28 PM EDT

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Well, that sure makes it easier to measure it out. lol.

Is the pole you're using aluminium?

Posted: 7/10/2014 6:15:01 PM EDT

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A true multi band dipole. Let us know how it works.

Posted: 7/10/2014 6:21:06 PM EDT

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Nice, your solder looks perfect.

Posted: 7/10/2014 6:51:30 PM EDT

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I used some of the bigger reels to hold my wire for a radial so I can wind it up.

Posted: 7/10/2014 7:00:45 PM EDT

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I'd be worried about rust if it ever rains while you have them out. Left a tape measure outside one night in the rain and then next morning it was hard to pull out even after I drained all the rust colored water out of it.

Posted: 7/10/2014 7:03:06 PM EDT

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"The taped crusader" 200' model.

Nice work, gcw!

Posted: 7/10/2014 7:10:24 PM EDT

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I was expecting a cordless "Screwdriver" For backpacking....

Posted: 7/10/2014 7:33:16 PM EDT

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I'll be interested in seeing how this one measures up.

Posted: 7/11/2014 5:11:34 AM EDT

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Thanks everyone for the kind words. This will be car portable so I am not really concerned about size like I am my backpacking gear.

I still need to make the end supports. I plan to use a couple 3-6ft painter poles with some type of quick connection point on top. If it goes right I will only need 2 guy wires.

130' is a lot of real estate so being independent of trees is a big plus. I lucked out that the wash pole slides onto my tripod perfectly.

Posted: 7/11/2014 9:40:48 AM EDT

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ur famous.....Brick just blogged your creation

Posted: 7/11/2014 6:48:06 PM EDT

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Haha. Awesome.

Posted: 7/11/2014 7:06:50 PM EDT

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What exactly are we seeing in the vice pic?

It looks like a coax, both center and shield. soldered together to measuring tape

Posted: 7/11/2014 7:24:17 PM EDT

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It is everyday 14ga wire soldered onto a spot where I took the paint off the tape measure.

Posted: 7/13/2014 11:01:02 AM EDT

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Posted: 7/17/2014 5:24:08 PM EDT

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Very nice.

Posted: 7/22/2014 5:28:43 PM EDT

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To keep the thread alive a quick AAR from my camping trip.

The antenna worked great. I used it up to 100w. After a couple setups and tear downs I was able to get the time down to 6 mins by myself and including the supports.

My best contact on it was with the kx3 and 1/2w to a station 300 miles away. It worked great as an NVIS antenna, which is what it was designed to do.

Posted: 7/22/2014 5:58:00 PM EDT

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and I can expect mine when....? I'm good in QRZ.........

Posted: 7/22/2014 6:22:44 PM EDT

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That's a pretty bad ass solder job.

Posted: 7/22/2014 6:29:14 PM EDT

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What's the orange doohickey?

Also, as a time saver you could mark your frequencies on the reverse side of the tape to save a little time.

Posted: 7/22/2014 6:34:41 PM EDT

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I predict it's going to rule.

Posted: 7/22/2014 6:52:27 PM EDT

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Also, as a time saver you could mark your frequencies on the reverse side of the tape to save a little time.

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What's the orange doohickey?

Also, as a time saver you could mark your frequencies on the reverse side of the tape to save a little time.

The orange part is a window squeegee that is made as an attachment for the top of the pole.

You could mark the tape. I thought about making a chart but it is pretty simple to just do the math. Even without a calculator I say 7MHz is 33ft, so 3.5MHz is double and 14MHz is half and let my tuner do the rest.

Posted: 7/23/2014 3:24:46 PM EDT

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Some clear coat over the solder joint should inhibit rust.
As far as the entire tape getting wet and rusting, from being outside?
WD-40 or similar, before retracting?

Posted: 7/23/2014 3:38:07 PM EDT

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Any type of paint over the joint would have been a good idea. I might do that. I didn't have any heat shrink that would work so I used black tape. I might pull it off to paint it.

The neat thing with the DeWalt reels is the trap door they built in to remove any debris. If it were to stay out in the weather I would squirt some WD40 in the trap door until I could get it dried off.

It wasn't built to be a permanent antenna. So a lot of those problems aren't really an issue.

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