K40 Plus Series 6000 Watt Trucker Antenna any good?

If your referring to that air cooled coil style..I got two in my garage being dust collectors....A lil heavy,one solid piece and nooo flex at all if you hit trees....If need be you can buy or have longer shafts made..I had shafts made and top masts to help,it all helps..
Thats why i love my predators...Weights nothing,totally rebuildable..If you have a duel coil and wanna run a long whip,take off one coil..Tunes great and i get tons of skip and HAVE reached 20 mi just #### chattin..
Gottin skip from ontario canada while in novascotia..Im in quebec talkin to texas...Running dow the highway this week and chatted to a guy from sc and alabama..

When you buy those heavy k40,your kinda stuck with a short shafted heavy,non flexable cheap ant...

 

I dare anyone to run even 4000w's threw one of those K40 antenna's... I would even be scared to run 2K with one.

IMO the only reason they advertise it as a 6000w antenna, is because no one running that much power would even consider using that antenna....

 

Cant imagine that kinda power...I get excited at the 300-400 my tx star puts out..

 

I am not being snarky but I fail to grasp why drivers seem to always gravitate to the fancy looking high dollar antenna that needs tuning and etc. when all they need to do is buy a single 5.5' francis and hook it up to an 18' piece of quality coax and immediately talk and hear.

 

I've seen say to use "18' piece of quality coax". Please explain why you make this statment.

 

Good co-ax is as important as a good antenna, and the factory stuff tends to be lowest-bidder junk. For tuning reasons 18 feet seems to be the correct length, and make sure it's not coiled, and good quality look for woven core for flexability and longevity, and low loss which means more signal getting to your radio.

 

There is no correct length for coax period....Unless you consider "use whatever it takes to get from point A to point B, as the correct length"....

Question...."What are you going to do if you need 22' of coax to get from the back of a Suburban to the front where the radio is at? Move the CB to the back seat so you don't go over 18'???"

What if you have a 50' tower? 18' is not going to make it much farther than just outside of your window....

 

yeah...that's all you need to talk...Just some people like talking a little farther down the road, or across the Country...

 

yeaah and i do. all i have to do is turn my palomar 400 hi drive on(it's old but gets hot-reckon it works? you got me kind of worried like i can't talk when i desire) and key up my galaxy 99 which all happen to be hooked up to a single 5.5' francis. I exit here impressed that some people like to talk farther. having been around cb's since a youth(moonraker IV's,base amps fired up with tubes,etc) i know nothing about such nonsense.

i guess i missed the point of your post. it happens-

 

A 5.5ft Francis is hard to beat for the money.