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Reviews For: Great Lakes Antennas All-Banders

Category: Antennas: HF Portable (not mobile)

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Review Summary For : Great Lakes Antennas All-Banders
Reviews: 12MSRP: Uncertain, but ~$90.. plus or mi
Description:
All-band coils for portable/mobile antennas.
Product is in production
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KD8RSK Rating: 2013-01-21
Great product at a Great price Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
I purchased this antenna because of it's multi-band coverage 10m - 80m. It has proved to be everything it was advertised to be. After some minor adjustments in the length of the whip length to obtain a reasonable swr reading on 10m, I found that on all the other bands the swr was between 1:3 and 1:5. This is great! The coil is simple to change bands just by moving a jumper wire. If I was to buy another mobile antenna for HF bands it would be this one from Great Lakes Antennas. Great job Dan.
K7FF Rating: 2013-01-14
Totally unsatisfactory. Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I bought nine (9) new HF All-Bander portable/mobile antennas from Great Lakes Antennas to replace the SuperAntennas MP-1 coil assemblies in my portable and mobile arrays. One was the 12.5" 80-10M version, and the other eight were the 8" 40-10M versions. I was hoping to find a viable alternative to the SuperAntennas MP-1.

After extensive tests in every configuration I could think of, using one, two, three, and four of the AllBander coils, I was unable to find any way to get the AllBanders to give useable standing wave ratios (SWR).

I purchased eight new SuperSliders from NewSuperAntennas and had instant success (see my review of the MP-1 SuperSlider in a separate review of even date).

I will be looking for other reviews of the AllBander coils in eHam Reviews.