At the weekend I got around to temporarily putting up the Imax 2000. It's mounted 6.3m high on a wooden mast (above image from cb museum with metal mast), SWR was 1.5:1, very impressed with the RX both local and DX stations. Have not had much time for TX but I will leave the antenna where it is for now until I can get it moved to a 'better' location. As other users have mentioned, the Solarcon 2000 makes a suprisingly good SWL antenna.
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Do you have that mounted in the spot where you had the 446 twig, and if so does it now clear the apex of the roof?
The antenna is mounted in the garden on top of a fence post and a Sycamore wood 'mast', the total height of which is 6.3m, it's then tied to the fence to keep it upright. That makes the base of the antenna just above the eves of the roof but does not clear the appexes of the houses near by, hence the tree idea in a previous post comment. I dont want to mount the antenna on the house (as not to annoy the landlord) and also the tree can give me alot more height.
Yeah I hear ya on the tree idea. Well count me in for some tree climbing antics :)
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