I remove everything from the package and usually use the buddistick bag and only take the parts I need for the band/bands I will be working. If I am backpacking and going for minimum weight I never take the whole kit. Did my rambling help to confuse you more?Īdded comment. The versa-tee is much nicer than the buddistick base so if you can afford it buy the buddipole and have the nicer mount and extra parts. Even though I have enough parts to make several buddipole antennas 90% of the time I use the buddistick configuration. Easily worked a friend in South Carolina with both of us running 5 watts. Using the buddipole kit and extra sections with the 2 coils together I have had good results as an 80 meter vertical.
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I do have the parts and can make full size 2 element beams for 6 and 10 meters. The buddipole can be better in some situations but one of my reasons for going to that type of antenna is simplicity when working portable. Most of mine have been a vertical antenna. Some of them before Budd Drummond published his original buddipole plans. Before buying the commercial kit I have been using similar antennas that I built myself. Also the mini coil and several different whips. I've learned a lot from it.īigDaddy, a few comments about the buddipole and buddistick. Tesla120 - Thank you for the great thread explaining the advantages/disadvantages of each version. Maybe we'll get some QRP-QRP action going soon with them! Ready to pull the trigger soon on one of these, also, Gyprat. The recommendations from seek2 and KM weigh in heavily in favor of the Buddistick. I'm a big fan of vertical antennas and I like the ease of setup of the vertical. I've been comparing the two different packages (Mini Buddipole vs Buddistick Deluxe) alot lately myself. The buddipole can be put into the stick formation, but you cant just buy the extra arm and whip to make the stick into a pole.ĮTA, he sells the versatee online now, but at almost the same cost as the price difference between the buddistick and buddipole. He wanted me to show of his antenna.ĭont mean to shit on your parade, but is there a reason why you went with the stick over the buddipole? That time I was using one of my homemade coils instead of a bought buddipole coil.Īt hamvention for the BMHA forum I was using Budd Drummonds bike antenna instead of my own.
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I was portable on a picnic table by my pond with a buddistick and IC-703+ His temp was upper 80's Mine was 0 HE was on the beach with a buddipole and KX2 at 10 watts SSB on 17 meters. In 2011 we did a 2 way QRP portable contact. One of my neighbors and good friend will be on that dxpedition too. I have never used it on 160 meters but have used 80 through 6 meters. On the lower frequencies I nearly always use a buddistick configuration.
I have enough parts to make full size 2 element 6 and 10 meter beams. I use a buddistick more than the buddipole. Does the David Clark headset and OD 7200 look familiar? At least one of them is a member of the 'Buddies in the Caribbean' mini-DXpedition team headed to Barbados on the 29th of this month. No dog in this fight, since I've never used one. They don'tĬollapse as small as the stock antenna, but they're super durable. Seriously you'd have to be doing something particularly retarded to break it with the military whips. These areĪluminum tubes with brass fittings that have shock cord through them like tent poles. Supply is much better than the tripod, which has like 6 inch legs and will fall over with the antenna in the slightestĪfter I whacked the collapsible antenna parts enough times, I upgraded to their military whip option. (generally desert-ish terrain, not urban stuff like park benches, etc.) I think they offer both options, the clamp they I ended up using a small photo tripod since I really didn't have a lot of clamping options where I use it Like a regular vertical would with shortening (it's down about 3db from a full sized vertical.) I've made a multi-ground-radial version, and it performs It makes tuning really touchy,īut with the radial elevated, it also makes the antenna very efficient. How many radials do you use with the Buddystick? Do you use a tripod or just attach it anywhere with a clamp?Īs supplied, the Buddistick is a one-radial antenna, and the radial should be elevated.
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