Posted: 6/13/2008 11:12:39 AM EDT
| Anyone have one? Thinking about picking one up for next weekend's camping trip and Field Day. I'm a little concerned that the bandwidth might be a bit narrow though. |
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My Dad and I were just in the Buddie pole factory on Saturday. They don't really have a show room, so they took us to the back where their CNC machine is and all the assembly area. They set one up and explained the ups and downs. It was interesting. It looks like a decent product to me. -Mark. |
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Vic 303 and I tried ours on a mini vacation at a church retreat. The rig was set up in the shelter house area that had lots of fluorescent lighting, once we turned the lights off, the rig got a whole lot quieter. Am hoping to find a reasonable collapsible antenna mast at HamComm tomorrow. I'd really like to get more elevation on the antenna than the stock set up. We're planning on running exclusively on the Buddipole for field day, will see how it does then. Semper Fi |
I knew I should have picked one of those up at Dayton for $99...
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I was just talking with their rep yesterday at Hamcom. What the buddistick, (what a ghey name), is good at is QRP. 40 meters and down. It wont work for my needs. I need 80 meters for MARS. What I did run across that was cool is: this antenna and this: Homebrew AS-2259 I just gonna build one of each. 
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Darn, I forgot my secret Arfcomm handshake while I was at HamCom. I stopped by the Buddipole display also, was seeing what they would recommend for a taller mast but didn't get an answer to my question. What I did see though was how to rig the Buddipole as an 80 meter vertical. They also did say they were coming out with a "cookbook" for different Buddipole configurations. Semper Fi |
Im going to start building the homebrew AS-2259 this weekend. 
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That does look like a fun project. Well, as far as the Buddistick goes, I waited long enough that I figured I wouldn't get it in time for my camping trip. It'd be here for Field Day but I really want to get on the air from the campsite. I ended up going with the P1 system from Blue Star Antennas. They're almost local so if I have any problems I'll just drive to them.  I'm figuring it'll be here tomorrow and I might be able to use it to check into the 80M net. I really liked being able to have 80M since I participate in the No FL Phone Net. I'll be sure to give an AAR.
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