8 foot Firestick

A 40+ year CB man told me he won more Key Down contests with the old 7ft, or maybe it was an 8ft, SkipShooter antenna than with anything else. The ol' boys running the steel whips couldn't figure it out. The old 8ft Francis out performed the 102" as well. Couldn't run a lot of power thru it though. Besides, a steel whip with a 6" spring, which you need, is 9ft! The mount on a Cascada is 5ft +, so you'd be 14ft at the tip.

 

I had trouble with the 102 inch whip staying above 2 swr across the band using the same mount as I mounted the 7 ft skipshooter. I did not add a spring. Since the skipshooter fell in at 1.4/1.5 I didn't fool with the 102" whip further as I bought that for another experiment.

 

And those answers are why I'm not a radio guy. I was told that 102" whip was about as good as you could get for an antenna and went with it so I stand corrected. I'll stick to my GMRS radios which don't need all the antenna.

 

Mike 5511....Didnt think and fibreglass whip could handle much more than a few hundred watts....Not to say i know anything but thats the 1st story in my 20 yrs on the road i ever herd of a guy beating everyone with a fibreglass whip in a key down..

 

I cut a stainless steel whip down to 79 inches and screwed this load form to the bottom and hand wound 8 Guage copper wire around the form to tune the antenna and it worked fairly well.

 

Ray in W. Memphis told me that himself. That is why he is such an advocate of the SkipShooter antenna.