Eagle One antennas

[KJ6AER]

I purchased one and it's on it's way, so I can't comment on it, but I'd like to hear from those who have one.

<edit>I tried the antenna once so far. I set it up in the mountains, but I think I was in a sort of canyon. I have a valley to one side and mountain on my other side, so may have created a directional somewhat. I tried to contact some /140 stations on 20 meters, but no one could hear me. I then was able to make a couple contacts on 40 meters. I had two 33' and two 17' radials laying on the ground and both the radials and radiator were connected to an LDG balun. I worked a 10 year old in Utah. So it does work. I could hear all over the US. I can't wait to test it some more (and paint it...I got an orange one). I now know I could have made one with an MFJ fiberglass pole, wire, and a way to support it, but I didn't have time. I wanted to get on the air.

[KI4WCQ]

I have an Eagle One that I use when I am portable. It works very well on 40m and 75m. I used it a few times on 20m, and made contact with the K5D expedition after only a few tries. I only have used it with 100 watts so far.

I found that it seems to work slightly better after I wound the coax into an air balun of about 15 turns.

I like the antenna and am glad that I have it. Very easy to set up, but you need to have a method of anchoring it. I used a twist in wire stake that is made for tying out a dog. I then hook a strap to the bottom of the tripod and tie it to the stake. Put some short rebar thru the feet of the tripod for more stability

[KI4YXO]

Just got mine in on Monday. I hooked up 4- 25
foot ground radials to the base, and ran a 4 awg
battery cable from the base to the piece where
the SO-239 mounts. When I first tried it out, I
could only tune 15, 20, 40, and 80 meters. Then
I spliced a piece of coax and ran it through the
tuner (balanced wire) that has a 4:1 balun. After
that it tuned 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 40, 60, and 80 meters.
I'm going to make a balun and install it at the antenna.
I've seen the antenna used at field, with good results,
also used it at RARS Fest.




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[KI4YXO]

Quick update!



Ok, I tried this with out the tripod. I remembered
I had an antenna mount I built for the Jeep! I also
went with 3- 14 awg 33' ground radials. There was
a huge improvement over the 25' 18 awg radials.




First, here's the mount I built for the Jeep..


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I was using it for my 2 meter beam I built..



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It also works well with my Eagle One!



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Here's where I tied in my 3- 33' foot long ground
radials, and as you can see I also grounded it to
the Jeep. The 3 ground radials are tied together
by one lug connector. I used a wing nut on the
ground lugs, so I can easily add or subtract ground
radials.



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I'm probably going to make up 3 more 33'
ground radials to use when the antenna is used
with the tripod. Again, I'll tie all 3 ground radials
in to one lug connector.

With the set up above, I tuned 10, 12, 15,
20, 30, 40, and 80 meters, with no balun.
I didn't try 60, and 17 wouldn't tune up.
My auto tuner won't tune 160, so that's out
unless I want to carry my manual tuner with me.

Anyway, this makes for a great portable
set up! The antenna can stay mounted on
the back of the Jeep, when I know I'm going
to have the HF rig with me. (If I'm wheeling, I'll
keep it inside) When I get to where I'm going,
I can easily raise the vertical, run the ground radials,
and hook up the feedline!