I love how Barb supports Mower Junkie with all his projects. Behind every great man…

I love it when you make homemade antennas your real inspiration for us all

Love the videos. I’m just getting back into the cb world after 47 years and it brings back so many good memories.

This is an absolute thing of beauty! Bonus points for the repurposing of the tractor seat and the "adjustment strings."

Thank MJ for making these videos. I really like watching them as it seems you are making them next to your viewers.

Great work MJ! You are a great advocate for our hobby. Really appreciate your passion

Great video.... ONE important tip - For a "more durable" tie wrap for exterior/sun exposure, use a BLACK tie wrap. The white/clear wraps WILL deteriorate much faster than the black nylon wraps. The black nylon blocks the sun's UV rays from destroying the nylon.... The next time you are on the roof, place some black tie wraps next to the white ones and you will see the difference in the durability....

Works fantastic. Your signal is much better locally. Pretty neat looking too.

Back between 1982-1988 was on the upper channels dx'ing. Had a modified President Madison and 400 watt amp. Collected up some black iron pipe and home brewed a tilt-over tower that stood 84 feet. Started out with a Wilson Y-quad and then built a full 2-ele-quad. Later put up a 5/8th (mighty magnum) wave vertical. Had a ball talking all over the world. The 11 meter band was wide open back then. Retired now. Enjoy watching your channel. :)

Hey Mower Junkie - I just come along your channel and I need to say “WoW”. Back in 1973 - my wife and I had the Realistic TRC-46. I still own it. In the house we used a Yaesu 101 for CB with a Moonraker 4 on the roof. After watching your video - I’m believing you and your wife take a lot more pride in your set-up than I did with mine. It’s always a lot more rewarding when you put your own system together and get the results that you just achieved. To make your own “Beastly Antenna” and get a 1 to 1 SWR - - That’s almost impossible. “Way to go”...

Brilliant. Simply brilliant. You inspire me (and others, obviously). I wish I were as young as you are. No more climbing on the roof for this old geezer. BTW, I heard you this morning on ch. 35 LSB talking with someone in Chicago, I think, but conditions weren't good for me to you. Maybe one of these days I can be honored to have a QSO with you, 151. And I really liked Barb's comments. Happy 4/20. 73 from Unit 807 -- the Old Buzzard in southern Illinois.

This has been around since the 60s yet i think many have forgotten great job

Your are the best, you certainly give us ideas on builds and so entertaining and informative in the process. Just loving the vids

As a former CB'r and antenna builder, i must say that was an excellent SWR you got. Greetings from sunny Jamaica.

Nice job. Been playing with 102" whips in various configurations. Ground plane is the key to success.

When the xyl says it's absolutely gorgeous . You have already won !

Absolutely brilliant John! Experimenting is a big part of the hobby for me! Take care and regards to your mrs 👍 73 176 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Decent build matey ! I built a 2 ele cubical quad for portable, I could assemble and take it down in about 5 mins, for 10m/11m it was bloody awesome. The boom was square thin wall aluminium, and the spreaders were old army tent poles I picked up at a surpless store. With a 1/4 wave length of 75ohm coax as a matching stub I got a 1.3 to 1 SWR at the lowest point, and it was under 2 from the bottom of 11 to the top of 10.

Good job. It’s great with the rotor. You can null out interference and at the same time get some gain vertically polarized . Great video as always MJ. Art NJ

hello mower junkie,name here is Ray,i just looked at your video,and i am pleased to see you out there spreading the good will among fellow cb"ers ....i will be sending you an email with some info in the subject line i will put the word moonrakker,so that you will know its from metake xare job well done.

Phased Array works well. Reminds me of the "Twin Trucker" antenna on each rear view mirrors.

Very cool, John! Glad it's working so well for you, and can't wait until we get to talk on the radio again. :) 73s from 641

Good Job 👍. I'll definitely try these kind of antennas with my old and trusted Washington radio.

What an amazing antenna, like the comment from Robert M. below, that is an *amazing* antenna, getting the resonance correct first time is simply amazing. You are a fantastic engineer, and I agree with your XYL ! This is lovely to watch.

You have to be one of my most favorite people to watch,thank you for everything you do

The best antennas I have ever used in my life were home made ,, Thanks for sharing the great information.

From a fellow country boy, that's country boy engineering if I ever saw it! Great stuff 151. Regards to your wife. I love the way the supports you. 424 Whiskey Runner Royal, AR

Your not nuts, you just love the hobby, congrats on your antenna project !!

Works great looks great keep up the good work.I really like your videos and they all work great. I’m NightOwl 137 Southern Indiana

That is a wonderful idea. Best of both for local and DX. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

This is great Mr 151. Just wish we had conditions across the pond so I could talk to you again. . be safe my friend. 73s. Good DX. 👍

151 SC. 406 NC. wow man this is awesome ! I gotta build one . I built your pvc copper ground plain antenna it works great . Love the videos you put out , they’re great for people like me, low on experience and funding . LoL I really learn a lot watching your videos keep up the good work 151 73’s to you and yours 406 back on the side

I just completed this antenna build, I used two ss 102 whips and 4, 4ft Wilson fiberglass antennas for ground radials. It's turned out awesome, it looks like something I would have bought from a store. That's just my opinion. My swr's aren't quite as good as yours, but I've got 1.3 to 1 on channel 1, 1.2 to 1 on channel 20 and 1.1 to 1 on 40. I usually talk on 38 lsb so I'm happy with my swr readings. Love you're channel, keep bringing on the antenna builds, love em !

The best I've seen yet. Those mobile antennas really work well when paired up. 155 N.C.Ohio

This is impressive! I think I may just try to make one of these someday. 👍

You've got yourself a nice little dual diversity pair of stardusters I like it kind of reminds me of the old set of IMAX antennas I put up going opposite directions about 30° up from flat had to use a pair of 75 ohm cables quarter wave long times the velocity Factor get it to work right and a couple other little deals but yeah Homebrew that's the way to go man when it works you feel 10 times better than just going out and buying something

Awesome job as always. It was worth the wait. Very educational.

That looks like a Jo Gunn antenna except that a Beam has a reflector, a driver, and a director. This doesn't. You will find that this antenna will radiate in a figure 8 pattern off of the sides of the antenna so it will get out better from the either side rather than off either end. It looks great and brings back memories when I use to play around with antennas in my back yard in the 80's. Keep up the good work. I enjoy all your videos.

The performance of the antenna is amazing, 73 from 146

I agree with Barbara it's gorgeous and very easy to copy of guy wanted to build one, I'm all with it I'm all about your building antennas myself

Love co-phased antennas, had a pair of co-phased quads up for a year, did the trick, look forward to hearing you in the skip if we ever get any "North 7" said that

Another great video as always. Really enjoy watching your channel.

Hey MOWER !!! good video Mr. 429 Randy is few block away from my QTH .. 429 booms all over the place, break break !

Excellent! Wish you had rotated it 180° during QSO with 1963 Jamaica, so we could hear the received signal drop to below the noise as the side null is pointed at him, and then hear the peak build when it rotates to where it is again broadside to the other station. If you S-meter is linear, you can calculate the front & back to side ratio in db that way. Nicely done!

They may say you are crazy but the stuff you build works better then the stuff you purchase keep doing this you should sell the design kit so others can build it at home you are the modern Heath Kit of antennas Keep up the good work I heard the Jamaican station 1963 Friday night 4 /16/2021 from NJ

Excellent build! Love this idea! May have to try for 10, 11, 12 & 15 meters! 73. ✌

I hope that you keep both the three element yagi and the co-phased ground plane up on the roof. This way you can work both verticaly and horozontaly .

Like John said this antenna should be directional in the direction the ground radials are pointing. Theoretically it should have less forward gain than the 3 element beam also the purpose of the beam is to give you forward gain eliminating or should I say reducing signals coming from the back and sides of the beam. This antenna has some gain in the direction the radials are pointing and allows you to hear signals coming from all directions it's like having a omnidirectional and directional antenna all in one. If you are building this for cb channels separation between antennas should be a quarter wave apart around 9 feet the coax for the cophased rg59 around 18 to 20 feet on each side 75ohm to achieve a 50 ohm at the radio. 73's...

Pretty cool I learn a lot from you thank you I watch all your videos keep them coming 😉

Nice build john ... beautiful results...

been watching off and on for years ..i am probably going to try to build something soon ..im broke so building my own is a no brainer

Nice antenna. You will have much fun with this one!

Well John , I finally got to watch the video . I'm very impressed , and I'm just gonna say .. I'm gonna steal that design and make my own soon , I don't know when , but I will haha . Great job buddy , very good work .

Impressive RF engineering right there sir.

John Boy Utah, Brenda’s hubbie. Nice video great antenna! Got off my bump and cause of COVID prison studied got tech and general same day, and I found out I do still love CB no radio snob’s just everyday people like sly said! At seventy four I am going to do all radio. Our brothers from the UK have some good video’s also there is a big rebound in CB in the UK because of COVID . Wish I had a CB store near SLC, Utah the way you do CHOW😎🇺🇸🎙

That's fantastic! Great work. 73s from 993 Seattle

Hey David, are you nuts? Hehehehe...I like what you doing. you enjoy what you do and have lots of fun with it. And this is what's it all about to live in peace and harmony. Good job, buddy. Happy sunday from Germany.

Mower junkie. You continue to amaze the cb world. Keep it up man. Echo 148 in arkansas standing by

That's awesome, I enjoy building antennas myself, I think I'm going to try this one later this spring, 73' ..Whiskey November 115.. Yellowknife, NWT, Canada

I had a dual polarity Moonraker 4 at one time and was able to switch polarity using the switch box provided with the antenna. I noticed that when the skip signals would start to fade on vertical polarity I could switch to horizontal and the signal would come back up. When it would start to fade on horizontal I would go back vertical and again, the signal would come back up. As the skip signals bounce off of the atmosphere, the polarity will change. That is why it is good to have both horizontal and vertical when shooting skip. Changing back and forth while talking local will not help much. Flat side will normally work a little better for local if both party's are running flat but both stations need to be the same polarity when talking local. Being able to switch polarity on signals that are half scale or fading out is a real advantage when shooting skip. Nice job on the antenna mower junkie.

Well worth the wait to see the video, but i enjoy all your videos. I may have to build my self one, i probably got the material laying around to do it. Thanks!!

great video lovely antanna its a pity over here in Ireland nobody uses am anymore.we do have a choice to use fm but only rarely used only when propgaion is in. Most use the upper band on ssb 27.555 calling channel

This antenna looks and appears to perform great. It also has the bonus of being quite compact, which would be ideal for my small garden. I know you show the parts you used, but do you have a list of what's required so a technical incompetent like me could construct one ?. All the best from across the pond.

Really nice build here in nova scotia close to salt water and the wind off st marys bay every thing has to be tripple size ans salt proof to stand up i have a 5 band vertical in the yard its a hustler its suppose to stand qit a bit of wind but i have 4 paracord guys so far its still up good video keep em comming

Great Job on this Antenna

Now, this is cool. Just too much fun. Thanks as always 73s from NY202

Awesome mj! I'm going to make one of these.

I like your Realistic SSB. Nice,nice...

Had to sub. Excellent work and an amazing performance on swr

I'd ask you to take a ride to Sumter and Cheraw to check out some houses for me, but you're always too busy building something. lol

Cool. I've always wanted to do that with two A99s.

It is very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

Love the video & the antenna works! 73's from 19EK116, Amsterdam The Netherlands

Mower Junkie, you are the man.. This one is a winner.. Hopefuly we will hook up some day.. 73s from North Atlantic 1221 Newfoundland, Canada.... Later..

I need to have you build me one great job you are amazing with the things you come up with

Well I sure hope I can get ahold of you one day to tell you great job over the radio instead of just messaging you but fantastic job on that one 145 Northwest Oregon

Vey nice antenna, good job. 73

Bravo perfeito exemplo total bazuka Foz do Iguaçu pr Brasil

Looks fantastic! How did you arrive at the design? I'm interested in the calculations. I need a roof-mounted DX antenna (read 'small') that can reach Japan from east coast USA on 100 watts. Can yours do that? Also, what bands can it cover? Thanks!

What is the distance from the end of the pipe to where the radials hole is drilled? I enjoy the information that you provide.

Excellent video. I made a biquad. 8dbi gain. 24 feet long 12 feet high. About 45 degree beam. Can be wired for circular polarization. 73's 351 se michigan.

Keep on being nuts, we love it.

I built a moon raker four element with a quad on the back using two three element beams with gamma matchs on both flat side and vertical side and it worked real good

What a buetiful masterpiece 👏

Nice job very cool.

I like the measurements on that because I’ve been wanting to make one like that but I never thought about using the gram planes like you have like you did I didn’t think about that but I did think thought about 102 stainless whip like what you got on both sides that could forget what how to do a ground plane I like that you did fantastic job you need to write the size of the pipe and the stuff that you do in the prescription That way we get the measurements how do you done it we can build one I built in town is not as much as you do keep it up I like it in your test you’re blessed having a wife and helps you

Antenna experimenter extraordinaire.

Hi Mower team XYL and All friends on Channel. GOOD WORK OK ! What I enjoyed watching most....is the passion and love for the communications enthusiast, Well done, I like 73 A25SL

Just wanted to give you an update on the co-phased antenna. First off I really like this antenna I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel. I got the swr down to less than 1.1 to 1 across the band and this thing works like a champ, I've yet to add a rotor to it, I just have it pointing NE and I've made contact to Canada, Buffalo,NY Cleveland, Ohio, the Carolinas I've even talked to operator's in North Dakota and Arizona. I hope one day to make contact with you using your co-phased antenna design, that would really make my day! Until then 73's friend and keep the antenna designs coming. 719 SE Oklahoma, operator Wally.

I wish you lived next to me. I do these kinds of things. People look at me like I'm crazy.. I try to get people into cb and it's rough.

Wow, Pretty cool on the home Brew Beam for sure! Found your channel through cb radio ghost talk -NY202 channel. We are having a March snowstorm so i am kinda chilling near the fire and watching videos, radio has been dead for a few days now as far as skip goes!

best antenna guy..i like it..want to make one..

would a pool brush pipe work to make the beam.

Awesome comparison vid! Now really curious on the radiation pattern of the co-phase. Maybe wider coverage than the Yagi?

Great job !

For your next homebrew antenna project you might consider building a two element quad beam. Back in 1978 I had an Avanti PDL-2 Quad beam on the roof at about 35 feet that got out great! It would effectively multiply my transmit power by 16 times (4 watts would get out like 64 watts and 100w would get out like 1600w!) What's cool about a two element quad beam is: 1 - It has a shorter boom length than your phased beam in this video 2 - It's a wire antenna, rather than using aluminum elements (although, it does use an aluminum boom to space the elements) 3 - It provides the ability to switch between vertical and horizontal polarization (although, it does require two feedlines) 4 - It provides both gain in the forward direction and rejection of signals coming in from the rear of the antenna 5 - The rear element is totally passive, requiring no connection (the rear element wires are slightly longer than the driven front element) 6 - The wires are bent around the spreaders so it isn't as tall or wide as straight elements, which means it can be rotated in a smaller space A step up from the two element quad would be a three or four element quad. You may recall the legendary Moonraker 4 antennas that were popular in the 70's. They had a reflector element at the rear - like the PDL-2 - then a driven element in front of that and then two passive director elements that further narrowed the beam in front of that. And, of course, there was the big boy beam - the Moonraker 6 antennas that had a 36 foot boom and SIX elements - the reflector, the driven element, and then FOUR passive director elements! The Moonraker 6 would effectively multiply your transmit power by a whopping 50 times! Thanks, for the video!

Well it seems it be a lot less costly than a manufactured beam. It looked like a lotta fun to make.

Great video

Good job.👍☘️

Usually when using the 102” you can usually get a better/ lower S.W.R. If you use a 6” spring on each 102” so it makes your overall length 108” each