[Mobile-Portable] HF Mobile-Use What Ever You Have-Hustler

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

The "Slim Jim" antennas were of the same time frame.  I don't know which came first.  I have had the Master Mobile single band "Hi-Q" coil set-up since 1962.  I currently have a High Sierra on my truck.

73 - Mac, K2GKK in OKC


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> On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:57, "Tom Bates" <tlbates at lr.net> wrote:
> 
> I use Hustlers in my antenna arsenal.  My HD coils have the heat shrink
> removed, and the remaining assembly given a thick coat of epoxy insulating
> varnish.  I tried dipping them in electric motor 100% solids baking varnish
> and baking, and also wrapping them in semi-cured epoxy-resin-glass banding
> tape.  The epoxy spray worked very well and was certainly the easiest.  I
> never was happy with getting those coils dried completely as long as the
> shrink was on top of them.  The glass/epoxy tape was heavy and bulky.  My
> best performing Hustler is a 15M coil using a 5/8 2M whip and tuned up on
> 20M.  Mounted high above the pickup bed on a guyed fold-over mast, this
> thing works wicked good!  Some pix on my QRZ.com bio. For the big
> screwdrivers, I prefer Hi-Q and Scorpion. Bug Catchers were (are?) the best
> you could buy for the least $$$, but you had to know or learn a little about
> antennas to make them work best.  Too bad about the Hustler "clutch"  That
> was a neat idea.  The setscrews stink.  Now that I think of it, my Webster
> Bandspanners have a similar "clutch" adjustment.  I think the Bandspanner
> may have been the first "adjustable coil" mobile HF antenna.  Any idea?
> 
> Happy Mobiling,
> 
> Tom  -  AA1NZ
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas L.  "Tom"  Bates
> New Hampshire Electric Motors, Inc.
> 459 Province Road
> Laconia,  NH  03246
> (603) 524-3729    (800) 660-NHEM
>  tlbates at nheminc.com
> http://www.nheminc.com
> 
> 
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