The Xiegu VG4 up tune

[@bobtwiggs2287]

Nice to see a new video. Thanks ErnieTech! Interesting antenna.

[@ernietech-101]

@@bobtwiggs2287 thanks Bob. I got thinking about our email exchange and thought I'd slowly bring the channel back to life. Any ideas for content?

[@davidjohnson497]

Hey thanks for this vid. I hope you will share some real "on-the-air" results. You went to a lot of effort to show how this could go together (with a lot of effort, that would have made me mad at the designer/vendor!), and it had good SWR on the bands. But a dummy load also shows similar results (maybe a bit better! Haha). Can you do a little comparative work to show signal levels (or, S/N levels) on this antenna versus any other antenna? I would love to see that. Please don't think I am slamming you, I really appreciate you taking the time to show your experience with that antenna so far. Sure would like for you to continue to report on your QSOs, hope you have many good QSOs and fun with it. All the best.

[@ernietech-101]

No prob. Not thinking you're slamming me at all. In fact, I consider it 'peer-review' of sorts. Since I ascribe to the scientific method, I like repeatable results and quality evidence. Well, the VG4 is my only antenna now but before that I had a Par End-Fed EF-17 that was uninspiring to say the least. But with the VG4 I have 88 countries confirmed since it went up in my QRZ.com logbook with FT8 or FT4 and no more than 50 watts from the FT-991A. No i understand that this is not a head-to-head comparison but for about the same amount of effort in this general period of the current solar cycle, my CQ or call ratio compared to the same with the EF-17 is better. And I gave the EF-17 away. Anecdotal? Different bands? Yes, but that's my experience. Thanks for asking!

[@PhilON4VP]

I could't find the link to the tuning schematics ... 73 ON4VP

[@120730amm]

Any measurements received ?

[@ernietech-101]

drive.google.com/file/d/1-zRUSgKrDMzptFH2fWG8IgmwFB9ABMyp/view?usp=sharing

[@ernietech-101]

drive.google.com/file/d/1-zRUSgKrDMzptFH2fWG8IgmwFB9ABMyp/view?usp=sharing

[@PhilON4VP]

@@ernietech-101 tnx, I got the picture ;-)

[@120730amm]

@@ernietech-101 Thank you so much. A good starting reference when I assemble mine. 73

[@brucekempf4648]

will it tune on 80-meters with a tuner?

[@МисяПушная]

73! Anton de UA3NDX

[@chriscornwell8447]

bottom line how did it perform?

[@ernietech-101]

@@chriscornwell8447 88 countries confirmed. Mostly FT8/4 with 60 watts. Better than the Par EF-17 as a ratio of call/answers in the same general period. Still non-scientific and subjective