Big Hair's 5/8th wave antennas

SPECS:
5/8th wave (may be mast, tower, or even tree mounted) during a windy storm. The fiberglass sections are design to have some flex in the wind, versus fighting against it. The flex in the fiberglass is designed to ensure the antenna will withstand high speed winds, and then retain its natural shape after the winds have surpassed. 5/8th wave over a half wave during a normal sunny day standing proud.

Big Hair's 5/8 wave CB antenna advantages

For upgraded performance, we now offer "silverplated" antennas and coils, the only metal that can surpass copper in low loss highest gain performance! 5/8th wavelength vertical element, over a 1/2 wave horizontal element, helps reduce skip fading for superior skip talking performance. You literally transmit on the vertical and flat side at the same time, all the time. We use much larger and more current handling copper and silver plated copper conductors for the antenna element and coils, versus the other fiberglass antennas. The high current and super low loss copper characteristics surpasses other fiberglass and aluminum antennas. Copper is the 2nd best RF conductor on earth, being just underneath Silver. Silver Plated Wire and Coils can

5/8 wave over 1/2 wave during a high wind storm

even be used for an additional fee. Silver is the best conductor on earth, much more conductive than aluminum, chrome, steel, brass, even gold! We also have "silver-plated" antennas and coils/inductors for the absolute best performance. With RF, your wattage only travels on the surface of the conductor, so silver plated copper is essentially just as good for performance as 100% silver! Also has higher dx gain, and a lower angle of radiation than the typical 5/8 wave commercial vertical antennas, due to the 1/2 wave element underneath the vertical element. The 5/8 wave and 1/2 wave combo also provides the right impedance balance, so the amount of inductimatching needed is also reduced, which in turn also increases efficiency. Utilization of large 6-10 gauge high current copper conductors (or larger) with "high voltage" insulation for both the antenna and the coil matching system, which ensures optimum power transfer, high wattage/current handling (30,000 watts approx), and low loss/increased transmitting efficiency. For ultimate efficiency and power handling performance, we also offer "silver-plated" antennas and silver plated coils/inductors. Can be designed so may be installed either "treemounted" or "tower mounted", you decide on how you want to mount it. Note: Although the CB antenna commercial "Fiberglass" competitors are using cheap 14-16 gauge wire for the next to the coil found in an IMAX 2000 antenna.

5/8 wave over 1/2 wave in the air

An example of a competitor's (IMAX 2000) coil matching network

My highly efficient and Heavy Duty coil inductor

All antennas are tuned, and checked for a 1:1 SWR by the reliable MFJ SWR Antenna Analyzer

My highly efficient Hi-Q coil, is about 10 times larger and more efficient than the IMAX 2000 coil. It can also handle 5 times the power! antenna radiator and coils inside their fiberglass antennas, and although they may have high voltage insulation to handle a lot of excess heat that such an antenna with small conductors and coils may generate, in my serious opinion a 14-16 gauge wire is simply too small of a conductor to allocate optimum current transfer needed to radiate all the "wattage" that may be sent to the antenna and matching system by the coax. I personally would prefer to radiate every single watt, instead of just 50%, and allow the remaining 50% to simply be wasted as heat. The smaller the conductor, the more the RF resistance, and the "current" capacity is also determined by the "size" or gauge of the wire itself, not by its insulation. The insulation simply protects itself from excessive voltage breakdown and heat. These are the main reasons why I have chosen to use 8 gauge copper wire (or larger), versus the puny 16 gauge wire that the commercial fiberglass antennas are normally made out of. You'll be able to put more power through my 5/8th wave CB antennas without wasting as much in heat.., which is another reason they are more efficient, have higher gain, and can handle more power without getting hot. More of it your wattage will be radiated out to DX land, and not heat wasted!