Mag Mount Antenna's Whip Replaced By V-Stub Wire Collinear

@abcd567 You said in the other thread…

…so I did.

I had to make a modification to the radials though. With 4 horizontal, I couldn’t get a good impedance match so I wound up using the 4-double arrangement and bending the radials UP almost like a co-linear. With that though…
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I just started testing it next to my mutant spider so I’ll see how it does over the next day or so. So far it doesn’t look like it needs to be double filtered to reject all the RF crap around me. I’ll also test what effect rotating the “V” has on message rates and gain. It does have a slight effect on impedance as you might expect.

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