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Our fully-adjustable DX Engineering Hot Rodz will work for a base system antenna just as well as a mobile antenna. DX Engineering Hot Rodz will allow you to use your antenna on a lower frequency band then you might be otherwise able to do, and will allow a lower profile antenna with increased efficiency so more of your RF power goes to your contact and less to heat the worms. Of course, a shorter antenna will attract less attention, so replacing that 6 foot whip on top of the screwdriver with our 24 inch high capacity hat system is going to go a long way toward keeping your antenna stealthy. Most screwdrivers are sold with a mounting bracket that can be attached between the main unit and a mounting tube of any diameter up to about 1.25 inch. Drive a 1.25 OD pipe into the ground to a depth of about 4 feet and leave about 2 feet out of the ground. The 1.25 inch OD would probably be about a 1 inch water pipe size. You can use a cap on the pipe to keep it from being deformed while you drive it into the ground. You can remove it afterwards. Next, slip the DX Engineering Stainless Steel Radial Plate (DXE-RADP-1P) over the pipe and attach the radial plate to the pipe at ground level with the U-bolt saddle clamp (DXE-SAD-175A). Then attach the radials. The Radial Plate comes with enough hardware to attach 20 radials. Additional radial plate hardware kits can be purchased to attach a total of 60 radials to the plate. Visit DXEngineering.com for directions on How to install disappearing radial wires without digging. Next, attach the antenna to the pipe using the mounting bracket from the screwdriver manufacturer. Last, attach the coax to the Radial Plate by using a Bulkhead Fitting (DXE-363-SST). Then run a short section of coax to the bottom of the antenna feedpoint from the Radial Plate. Additional size rods are available, including 48 inch and 72 inch long ones that will get you down to the 160-meter band. |
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