Will the Fara-J work on 70cm? 

I appreciate your watching. Also allowing me to be wrong and human :)

Thank you!

I love that you are enjoying it! Thanks for letting me know.

6m would be huge! Not saying I won’t try. I’ve been asked quite a bit about this so I better consider it. What would max power you would try and jam through it?

@@VE6SFX_HamRadioRookie Well me personally.. maybe 50W? But most HF radios with 6m will do 100W... could make for an interesting video... can you melt a Fara-J 😂

@@HamRadioDX Audio report - "Your audio is sounding like dripping wax"

There is a tie down on the bottom just like at the top for this very reason. You can either tie it down or weight it. I was changing out antennas and wanted to respect the other operators time and did not tie the bottom down.

@@VE6SFX_HamRadioRookie Ah. Good idea, already in place! 👍👍

Great minds think alike :)

Many thanks!

Interesting and never thought of it that way. I need to re-test but get the antenna at least one wavelength above ground.

@@VE6SFX_HamRadioRookie For 2m/70cm most favour ⅝ Wave as for terrestrial use that gives you a lower radiation angle of between 1-10° and that will favour ground wave comms. Again YMMV! 👍

Thanks for sharing! :) Keep in mind if it is wet and the SWR is high like it would be at 70cm it might get warm. If you have any issues let me know and I will replace any 'test' units you might melt :)

@@diegocasati Diego. It works not too bad indoors. Especially at the higher frequencies. Could potentially give you a demo since you are in town. Send a email to hamradiorookie at gmail dot com

You can definately help the tuning but you would need a antenna tuner to get it properly done. Here is the video you might have seen ru-vid.comJYkSCSzqHQc?feature=share

@@VE6SFX_HamRadioRookie Thank you. I usually check with an antenna analyzer.

Yes I have. Here is the thing that is happening right now. I am establishing the logistics, supply chain and manufacture of one antenna and slowly going to release others as I get comfortable with how things are going. With this comes having to choose what products to release next. I am choosing 2m, 70cm, and soon GMRS. 220 is on the list but these will have to come first.

As it should.

I have thought abut this a lot. I will definitely try. Here is what I predict though. Is that any metal or animal within 2 wavelengths of an antenna will create a effect. Having two antennas stacked will effectively detune each one, likely making both ineffective... Now that I am typing this it occurs to me that one might just have to tune both antennas in conjunction with each other in close range and possibly this could work kinda like how the DX commander works or a fan dipole... Anyhow YES! this is something worth testing. Thanks for having me type this out and flesh out the concept.

If you use a vna, you could test to see where it is tuned and possibly adjust.

Yes exactly

What if you took this concept and mounted both antennas on the same pole with one inverted? So stacked one above the other? You would still have to deal with the coax passing near the lower antenna, but then maybe you only have to do fine-tuning on one of them? This plus the idea of some kind of grommet at the bottom to help keep everything from getting stress on your cable and connection points… Bravo for being honest and forthcoming, and for science! :-)

118-174 the lower end is bad but it has a new dip at 160 of 1.5 : 1 SWR. 430 to 470 no good

For lightweight RG316 but no more than 15' amzn.to/3WxfsHG (this is what I am using in the video) or if you need longer RG8X is good amzn.to/4byeW0F

First try another cable. I have had this happen on some units sold and it was always a faulty connection or cable.

@@VE6SFX_HamRadioRookie tnx 🙂

Following up. Did you get it to work?

It receives fine and if you are not transmitting then no worries!

50watts

Yes-ish. Thing is that the antenna at a lower SWR does work better. Substantially better. However if you just need one ‘utility’ antenna for both bands the 2m will do