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No matter where you install the antenna, here are some things to keep in mind
• Think about safety, safety, and more about safety! Your first concern is making
sure that neither you nor anyone else will be injured. Adding a db to the signal strength
won’t matter if someone is injured.
• Don’t use braid. Typically, braid is not much better than a small diameter wire. Either
use our HS-GS ground strap or a flat wide strap of sheet metal. Plumber’s tape or pipe
strap sold in hardware stores is a very good ground strap. Please don’t call to say the
antenna won’t tune if you have used braid.
• The connection of the ground strap
must
be made to a screw near the coax connector.
• Try not to re-engineer the antenna design. With over 10,000 antennas in use around the
world, we have worked very hard to make this antenna the best possible.
• A long whip will add signal strength on 40 and 80 meters. The antenna was designed so
that whips up to about 9 feet long and capacity hats may be used. However, the antenna
will become too long for resonance on 10 meters and perhaps lower frequencies.
• We strongly recommend that there be at least 15 feet of coax between the antenna and
the transceiver. \
• Don’t DWT (driving while tuning)!
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