Anyone using the Miracle Whip antenna?

[racin06]

I'm just curious how this antenna would perform on my Icom R75 monitoring HF: http://www.miracleantenna.com/MiracleWhip.html

 

[ReceiverBeaver]

About as far as any 57 inch piece of wire that you have laying around in your junk box.

All artificially shortened antennas are a compromise. Yes, they will "work"....but how well they work is what you have to ask.

None of them will have ANY gain....anywhere.

Yes, you can plug it in and it will receive some signals....but you will hear about as much by straitening out a coat hanger and sticking that into your antenna port.

Short antennas for longer-wave HF frequencies always produce poorish results. You'll hear strong signals, but there will be so many weak signals that you won't hear at all. HF comprises a substantial deal of weak signal work.

These things are better than nothing.....if you're stuck in an apartment or somewhere else where you can not put up a "real" outdoor antenna, or need something to take your listening show on the road and go portable.

Otherwise, I like my Miracle Whip on my beaver sandwiches....Mmmmm beaver....tastes like chicken.

 

[n4voxgill]

I have used an MFJ apartment antenna mounted to the eve of my house to receive HF comms. It works better than I expected it too. Price 99.95

http://www.mfjenterprises.com/products.php?prodid=MFJ-1622

 

[ka3jjz]

I'm just curious how this antenna would perform on my Icom R75 monitoring HF: http://www.miracleantenna.com/MiracleWhip.html

This is a tuned antenna, not quite just a 57 inch piece of wire as one poster noted. In fact, I understand this design was written about in QST magazine a couple of years ago.

I had one when I had my FT817 (sorry now that I had to sell it all). The tuning was quite sharp on the lower bands (as one would expect) but it worked very well indeed for such a small antenna. Of course, the 817 has a very hot receiver so my results may be slightly biased.

73s Mike