New MacoGain VCLR5002 

you're too kind. That my friend is the product of limited monetary resources and abundance of otherwise unusable antennas.✌✌

Thanks and thanks for watching. ✌✌

I loved mine. In the 90's during my first run I had 2 co-phased and talked all over the world. When taking them down one got broken and the other sat on the ground for nearly 20 years. I started having swr issues and found a crack in the coil housing. I had the damaged V5000, an unusable clr2 and the second section of the clr2 from the broken made a perfect bushing. Hence you have the VCLR 5002.

@@udx-483muddbucket5 I switched from the CLR2 to a set of stack 3s in the early 90s. Big change from Omni directional to a beam. Took some getting used to. I tried everything over the years. Moonrakers and PDL2. I think the PDL2 was the best beam antenna I ever had

Thanks, so far it's doing well except it's not high enough. lol Good to see you over here.

I appreciate that. I was down to nothing functional by itself so I had to do something and it's been awesome. Thanks for watching.✌✌

Have no idea what the originals were. I just used those tie pieces from the TV antenna and they appeared to be pretty close to what I remember it looking like.✌✌

I measured what I'm using and they are 12 1/2 inches eye to eye so if you removed the eye on the end you could make it an even 12

@@udx-483muddbucket5 Thank you sir.

thanks for checking it out friend. ✌✌

The mast of the Maco is 18" and the sleeve in between the two is 15" long. Thanks for watching. ✌✌

I build a lot of antennas I was curious thanks

No problem. It was a blessing I had the other broken CLR2 because the second section was a perfect fit over the Maco after removing the casting ridge inside.✌✌

Ring tuning is the easiest, and strongest, method of matching an antenna longer than a 1/4 wave to 50 ohms. The theory is that the 50 ohm point is somewhere on the ring, but you have to be patient (or use an antenna analyzer) to find it.