The WRC + 17' Whip!

I made some recommendations in the last video, now its time to put my monkey where my mouse is. We're going 17 foot on this one! We're also going to try the sporty forty coil and see what we can make of that!

Gear Used In Today's Video:
My Setup:
- 17' Whip
- 3x 33' Radials
- Ground Spike
- Silver Bullet 1000 80-10m
- Sporty Forty

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[kcwvg]

Nice video, Steve. I have been using for over a year the WRC TIA with the 17' whip on a homemade ground spike. Mainly with a Xiegu G90. Works great. Thanks for another great video. KC8WVG 73

[kcjbradio]

I’ve been running the WRC SB1000 with the MFJ 17’ whip on the WRC tripod with the long legs for a number of years now. Definitely works. I’ve never tried it on 80. Cool video!

[Martin_Lynch]

Excellent video and well done on your presentation style.

[Chameleon_Antenna]

When we'll be introducing our CHA BLANK Adapter - you will never going to need to use that kind of mount system!

[stevet]

I have a very similar set up. It is definitely my favorite portable antenna.

[Philip-KAKOE]

The long whip rocks as you have just find out. Only need the coil below 20m. The nearly flat curves below 20m indicate loss. Use a camera tripod, get the coil/whip off the ground, and use a single elevated tuned radial

[NovemberOneOscarGrouch]

I have to use my AA-55Zoom to tune the WRC.

Great video Steve. I have the chameleon 17 footer as well. Much better than the MFJ.

Gotta use the tripod in nature and wildlife preserves. Can't have anything in the ground or trees. Otherwise, I like the spike option.

[dylanschulz]

Now move the coil up 4-6 feet and mid load it. You will get surprising performance on the low bands. I run mine on my mobile mount on a 4' mast with a 102" whip out the top when parked. Works great on 60 meters. The Hustler resonators will out perform the base loaded whip on 40 meters down. Base loading is pretty much the worst way to load a vertical as far as losses go.

[victorcharlie]

Nothing like a good Whip on a chip, tnx Man!

[dougdaniels]

I've found the ground stake to work great with the WRC as well. Any reason you went with the Chameleon 70" instead of the WRC 70"?

[KeepEveryGuessing]

It's too bad that modern transceiver matching indicators don't include whether the big mismatch is inductive or capacitive. Or a super broad receiver noise level scan, so you could see which way to the peak. These rigs already have as much stuff as a modern antenna analyzer.

If you have the time, you might try having the radio where you can hear received noise and tweak the coil to peak it. Yes, you are in the near field, so it will de-tune when you step away, but you will know that it is close, and be able to make tiny adjustments from there.

[full_metal]

Is this similar to the “Rockland Rover?”

[Siskiyous]

At some time I would like to see you just turn a 17 foot whip into a linked dipole with alligator clips and wire. I now have a pair of 17s, but have not had time to go try them out, a theme for this era of my life, but I expect them to just work.

[angelscomputers]

"This antenna is not cricket, is just an optical illusion" LOL. Well, there we go, I have the coil but didnt know about the "forty thing'. NO, I dont need it....but I want it....ahhh

[EOGIY]

How much power does it send on the SWR sweep?

[wadeduvall]

Any idea when WRC will be back to production? It's not clear from their store message if somebody is out with the flu or doing 9 months of chemo.

[robertmeyer]

80 meters is a hard band to tune. I only run FT8 on 80 meters. so I only need part of the band. now everything sounds better on my laptop. I found my old soundblaster 5.1 USB EXT sound card. Plugged it in set my settings for 5.1 speakers. sounds great. was in my camping bag. I have 5.1 small speakers that sound great and a homemade class D 12/24V amp. only 50 watts . but in a tent it sounds super. My laptop has 4K 17in display . blu ray looks great ! And i have 3D glasses as well. Download the new version of WSJT-X. we have SUPER fox and hound now. Have not tried it yet. 73

[dreupen]

As you likely know, SWR is only part of the story. That 80m BW looks very broad and by estimates it has a very low Q of under 10. While Q can be estimated by taking the ration of F_resonance/BW is is a measure of the ration So while SWR looks good, most of the signal power is lost!..

[EOGIY]

Next time, try to mix both coils to get to 160m.

[pvdk]

Hi Steve, how many radials did you use in this video and how long are they each? Keep up the vids ! 73 Phil ON4VP