Another Antenna Destroyed - Trying To Rebuild It - The "StarDuster" Tribander

[@HamRadioGizmos]

Tomdavis6547 I agree. I find his humor and passion contagious. He always makes me smile even when working on the most mundane projects. I think it is because he always looks like he is enjoying himself.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

He is Me :)

[@HamRadioGizmos]

@@DXCommanderHQ hehe

[@toddhowell2299]

Love it. That starduster is very clever. I once heard that when trimming a dipole not to aim for perfect center because you'll end up with slightly worse SWR but wider bandwidth.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Ah. I didn't know that!

[@Shep5847]

The Banana Peeler!

[@superdutyohv3401]

Just got my signature 12.4 in today from DX engineering! Excited to get it up and running 📡

[@DXCommanderHQ]

FAB!

[@bitemykrank1970]

Drooling over the space you have available for antenna's. Makes my paltry backyard efforts look like a joke...I thought three poles was enough, obviously, I was wrong.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

I spent 15 years with a small back of the house.. Instead, I put on huge field events..

[@tomdavis6547]

Gotta love the wild Callum videos... Still think David Attenborough needs to be doing the voice overs though....

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Now THAT would be fun!

[@Joe-KN4IFI]

Name: BananaDuster or BananaBuster hehe. Looking good Callum 73 Joe

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Bananabuster! LOL

[@m7trsradio]

Great video Callum. Its all coming along nicely. 👍🏽

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Thanks 👍

[@robertmeyer4744]

Great work ! The bands in NY,USA has been great ! I even got a NY to England on CB . Just a piece of Coax up to meter pole. T2LT antenna I made for a friend. Was tuning and testing it. Great band with and low 1.1 SWR on EU CB band and like 1.4 SWR on CH 40 of the UK CB band, Just cut a piece of RG 8X and made a antenna out of it. Friend has it now. Loves the tune I got . Cheers from NY !

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Brilliant!

[@BoB4jjjjs]

Geeze!

[@peterlowrie1216]

The DX Pulsar.

[@mikesradiorepair]

Introducing the new "Tri-Band Bananna".

[@DXCommanderHQ]

HAHA

[@mikesradiorepair]

@@DXCommanderHQ Just need to make the top pole sections bananna yellow.

[@steelheadplayer]

Coming soon , the high performance ADSB antenna from DX Commander 😄

[@W4TRI_Ronny]

It's a gain antenna. One more Banana!

[@Shep5847]

I’ve been waiting for this!! Maybe offer a retrofit kit for those with 12.4 Signatures already! I’d buy one today!

[@DXCommanderHQ]

I will spec one out.. Need to stock some nylon bolts. Wendy's gonna have a melt-down!

[@Shep5847]

Tell her that we are paying for it! Lol. Seriously I would put down a deposit if it would help. I really want a 10m above the ground for my new property in the country.

[@Scotscan]

That antenna was superb. I remember watching the live stream when you used it in a contest.

[@Scotscan]

Oh and yes, A380, Emirates ;)

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Yes, it was quite a brew!

[@thomasperina2990]

Hello Lord Callum: I just love the way you explain your designs. Are you shure you weren't previously an auto mechanic. The way you work those spaner wrenches is amusing. On a serious note I love the way your designs go from the computer into your antenna testing field. For me sir the farmers animals in his field is so relaxing. Outside of the plane traffic it's quite peaceful so you can concentrate on your work. God Bless Callum, & my best wishes to Wendy and the dogs. TMP, Unit 22 from N.J.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Awe! Always a lovely comment. Thanks for the love.

[@suppermuddyjeep]

Looked like a C-5 Galaxy. I saw a C-17 in one of your other videos, you must be near one of the Air Force bases.

[@zsrozar]

Nope, C-5 has a t-tail, like the C-17

[@paulsengupta971]

This is getting close to an idea I had, which was a multi-band T2LT flowerpot antenna. I've mentioned it to Tim before. Basically I was looking at creating a T2LT, but then making it into a fan dipole. I was going to try an upper and lower leg dipole connected in the middle, but I had thought the same as you, just use the same bottom leg and take the impedance hit in having it a bit off-centre fed. Another idea I thought of was the same as yours, but having three different tuned radials for the three bands. I had this thought as the V2000 has a 6m tuned radial on top of 2m and 70cm, and there's that discone that has multiple elements tuned for different bands. Now you have a hinge, maybe you could experiment with the three different sized radials to see how it compares in terms of VSWR.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

That would work too. Just looks awful HAHA!

[@DonDegidio]

Hi Cal, That was an Airbus 380. Can't mistake the shape of that fuselage. Now that you will have a 20m yagi up soon, I'm off the air since I had to sell my FTdx10. 😞 I do have a Flex 1500 around here, but that is only 5W output. Will have to make due until my finances get back to normal. I'm praying I won't have to sell my home. You and the family stay safe. 73 WJ3U

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Bet you on 5W and my Yagi Don, we could make it work!!!

[@chrisg7veo495]

the new flexible antenna "Bananna Commander"

[@chuckrann6282]

Top Banana

[@M0IDW]

Seeing as you already have Nebula I think more space themed names are needed, Galaxy or Galaxia, Cosmos, Astrum, Cosmic, Quasar, Supernova

[@DXCommanderHQ]

I like it! Actually John, the site manager thought of the "Galactic".. But I'm not so sure LOL!!

[@M0IDW]

@@DXCommanderHQ maybe you should ask Emily for a name again LoL

[@timg5tm941]

If it’s a kit it has to be called Eartha

[@paulsengupta971]

Surely save that one for a grounding kit.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

COme on Tim.. You can do better than that LOL!!

[@jonathanhall6815]

The feather duster.

[@sveinfarstad3897]

You like me, breaking things, stop that pal 🤣🤘

[@DXCommanderHQ]

HAHA

[@jackK5FIT]

That mostly full antenna field is amazing. The projects are coming along nicely. I know the planes annoy you but they don't come through on the video as very loud.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Yes, luckily I have discovered a special effect in Davinci Resolve which is essentially AI and I can remove 100% background noise. I don't - I leave it just so.. But that's an easy fix most recently!

[@paulsengupta971]

@@DXCommanderHQ We like the aeroplanes!

[@TheREALJosephTurner]

Callum always comes across as such a nice and cheerful guy, that it's nice to see him complain about the airplanes. It shows he's as close to human as ham radio operators can get!

[@FromthehamshackwithNJ4Z]

The name is the DX dominator

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Oh John! I Love it!!

[@paulsengupta971]

That sounds like a CB antenna.

[@BartVanAllen]

Interesting - Perhaps a Signature 9 built on top of some spacer poles, or using the top portion of a Signature 18 but including tuned multi-band grounds perhaps using something like rotator cabling? Could be draped on supporting guy cables - that would give multi band high performance in a small garden (back yard here over that puddle) feasibility? I use old rotator cable for tuned "radials" on my ancient Hy-Gain 18AVT/WB-S 5btv (sixties vintage) which would work much better raised at least a couple yards (meters) or so - but I would think a Sig-9 up about 3 meters using a 12.4's the main pole would be even better - (no loss from traps) and still give 6-40 meters coverage.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

I know.. SO MANY options!

[@ErikTheVikingMechanic]

The antenna name is Hamkenstein 73 M7LDK

[@BartVanAllen]

"Stretch" for short? (sorry for the pun involved)

[@DXCommanderHQ]

HAHA!!!

[@garyh8315]

You'll be able to compete against the CQWW big guns with the antenna field

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Not sure about that. We'll still be weak on 160m and possibly 80m..!

[@paulsengupta971]

@@DXCommanderHQ What happened to the long wire?

[@2e0txe]

When do the fields go on sale in the shop so we can all have as much fun experimenting :)

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Hey.. When the complete multi-2 station is operating, I will have special "radio open days" if you want to come and operate..

[@tommiehinman1349]

Thanks for sharing another fail. Now we can feel normal LoL 🎉😂😊

[@DXCommanderHQ]

😁

[@haraldlonn898]

Bantenna!

[@Embarking-on-a-new-adventure]

THis will became the same antennapark as KE5EE in the future 🙂

[@steve87uk]

I have to ask, how many pairs of glasses do you have? 😁

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Haha.. You spotted the continuity error! LOL!

[@TelfordO]

Lol. I thought the same 😂

[@madalinbetea9871]

Can use a CRT yoke deflection core for end fed unun . If possible make a video about this

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Not my field sorry..

[@madalinbetea9871]

@@DXCommanderHQ Ok no problem.

[@K7TDM_Tyler]

You need a can of WD-40! Do you have that over there? It’s handy for stuff like that. (If not, I should send you some!)

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Yes Tyler - but that means I would have to walk back to the shop.. And I happened to have the Vaseline there LOL!

[@michaelstora70]

As far as a name . . . is Starduster trademarked? Might want to call it the Horizon because the 5deg is so strong. Horizon 12, Horizon 18.

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Weird.. I thought of that but then went off the idea since that name was an old favorite science program I used to enjoy on BBC.

[@munk0821]

How about calling it the DC Commander Cloud.?

[@DXCommanderHQ]

DX Dominator! (courtesy of John NJ4Z)

[@26CW128Jake]

The 'Boomer Wang'

[@DXCommanderHQ]

HAHA Brilliant :)

[@sveinfarstad3897]

It is a A380

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Yes.. And the audio: The noise difference is quite different..!

[@sveinfarstad3897]

@@DXCommanderHQ It's BIG!