[OZAPRS] OT: what to use for Antenna Tip?

[Andrew Gilbett]

Hi Damien,

I have a 10m mobile one whip, I can get the specs for the tip if u
want (just have to go and measure it), but its going to be different
length... but likely the same diameter.
What I did to replace the tip was get some fencing wire and cut to the
approximate length (on the long side) and just trim it to tune it the
the frequency that you want. If the tip is not to long then it is
fairly easy to straighten it out.

Thanks :-)
Andrew Gilbett
andrew.gilbett at gmail.com



On 28 July 2010 09:39, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I have a mobileone 30m whip on the car for HF APRS - it's a bloody great
> little (well, not so little :-p) antenna, but I'm having hell getting a
> replacement tip for it..  M1 have been nice enough to send me a couple of
> replacements, but one was too short, and the other, the envelope arrived
> without the tip! (actually the envelope arrived without the tip inside on
> the first one too, but the envelope and tip were in an Auspost envelope..
> this latest one, there was just no tip in either envelope!)  Seems Auspost
> don't have any testing of envelopes before they go into the sorting
> machines, to see if they'll actually BEND..which is a bit bizarre.. - I've
> shipped THOUSANDS of LED's simply in an envelope with a sheet of thin card
> either side, and never had a complaint from customers..
> So anyway.. - I really don't want to hassle M1 any more.. - they don't seem
> to want to tell me what the tip is (i.e. what type of steel, what diameter),
> so wondering if anyone else has had to replace the tip on their M1 whip
> themselves, and happens to know what I'm asking metaland to order in for me?
> Cheers,
> Damien
> Damien Gardner Jnr
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