[Antennas] Tiger Tail

Dan Richardson [email protected]
Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:21:02 -0800


At 08:02 PM 1/29/2004, you wrote:
>Who made the Tiger tail HT counterpoise and does anyone still sell it?
>ED AND CARRIE YEARY  W4TEY and W4CAY
>325 CUMBERLAND DRIVE
>HARROGATE, TN. 37752-6942
>

It was made by Antennas West, however, they went out of business. Their=20
stock and etc was taken over by a company called Radio Paul, but searching=
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on the web I was unable to locate them.

The Tiger Tail was nothing more than a =BC-wave wire the clipped on the=
 outer=20
portion of an HT's BNC connector. This provide a better ground-plane than=20
the HT itself. I shouldn't be very hard to make one as there really isn't=20
that much to it.

73
Danny, K6MHE
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