On Wed 04 May Don Wilhelm wrote:
> For those doing SOTA and operation from places where there are no
> trees or other natural supports
I prefer to carry a light-weight telescopic pole and a linked dipole,
and not just for the better efficiency it offers; it also weights quite
a bit less, even
I am not going to be a proponent of the Buddipole system, nor am I going
to be an adversary.
In other words, the Buddipole system works well, and the standard system
will tune to 15 through 10 meters without the added inductors. For
bands below 15 meters, some inductance is added to lower
Nor have I. I had a full-up BP for several years and discovered that,
despite pictures of various configurations ... arms out, up, down, in a
Vee, one up/one down ... there really were only two configurations --
horizontal and vertical. In the horiz mode, it's an OCF short loaded
dipole
Maybe it's more an in-the-eye-of-the-beholder sort of thing then lol.
My first rule of antennas is "put up what stays up, and stays up every
time". That of course, is my /P influence talking, so the rules are a little
different for me:
- The Buddipole may just look nicely packaged, but in
The first rule of antennas is "put up the biggest thing you possibly
can, and if it stays up, it was too small."
The Buddipole is SMALL.
That's why I don't have one.
The other reason, it seems to me that you're paying a premium for a
nicely packaged units.
I have a 33 foot collapsible kite
Well, you get what you pay for is about all I can say there. The Buddipole is
so well thought out and constructed you don't have to replace half of it
with upgrades as soon as you buy it, like some of the cheaper alternatives I
looked at. You're basically done with the credit card the first time
On Tue,5/3/2016 9:28 PM, lstavenhagen wrote:
But even so, the Buddipole is one of the best ham radio investments you'll find
you've made,
I've never understood the logic of that -- lightweight, easy to support
antennas that are more effective are a lot cheaper.
73, Jim K9YC
Congrats! And on the Buddipole, I'd suggest ordering a set of the long
telescoping whips (the near-10 footers) and just getting that overwith now,
if you don't have them already. The stock short whips work ok on 15 meters
and up, but on 20 meters tuning gets very very sensitive and narrow-banded.
I completed the assembly of the KX3 and the 100 watt Amp. Also set up the
Buddie pole Deluxe and was blown away by the overall quality of all the
equipment.
Now to get it all tuned up; need to do the temperature compensation for the
roofing filters,figure out how to get the Heil headset / mic
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