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Review Summary For : ULTIMAX monoband bazooka dipoles
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Monoband bazooka dipoles built by Ultimax in Florida.
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.ultimax-antennas.com
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W5DGM Rating: 2022-06-06
80 M Monoband Bazooka Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I chose this antenna for its construction. Easy to install, I was good to go once I tuned it where I wanted to operate. Just fold the ends over and secure as directed - easy. Don't forget to use some kind of flexible (bungee) jumpers on the ends to allow the antenna to flex in the wind. I have the apex at 40 feet on my tower. Results were 'as advertised' with signal reports very positive from net stations I regularly check in. I am very pleased with this antenna. Albert builds these antennas to last. He is also great with customer service. Highly recommended.
KB7RM Rating: 2021-05-21
80/40 BAZOOKA Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
Had a 79$ VEE antenna - worked good - BUT getting the 40/80 BAZOOKA which I put up at 35ft APEX
and Legs at 15ft each end - WHAT a Difference !!
SO glad I kept the MIL Poles for this Ant.
What a difference it makes, even on 10-20
being at 4600ft ASL here in AZ I am sure helps.
Works great for LW beacons and AM DXing as well.
But it RCVs very well on my 890S and tunes on other
bands with no issues at 100W.
AM very pleased with ANT - BEST of the 12 wire Ants
I have used over 42yrs of HAMMin. And with My OLD! TET Beam/still in use at 25ft - amazing Ant as well.
I have 2 great Ants for Gabbin, and DX'n 73s guys.
W4KX Rating: 2020-12-03
Nice antenna! Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Just put up a double bazooka 40m. Really amazed about its enhanced rx performance! Well constructred! Will see over the winter months!
BUDA1066 Rating: 2020-07-07
Ultimax 20 Meter Double Bazooka Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Installed as an Inverteted V with apex at 22 feet. The best antenna I've used on 20 meters in the past 40 years. Currently using this antenna with the Xiegu G90 (1-20 watts). Contacts made with stations in North and South America and Europe.
KD2JF Rating: 2017-08-07
The Ultimate Bazooka Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I've been curious of coaxial dipoles forever so I ordered the 40M version from Ultimax. I had previously been using the Ultimax 100 on 40M and wanted an upgrade. Build quality is impressive and installation was easy in an inverted V. Tuning took about 20 minutes to get a 1:1 swr from 7.0 to 7.3 mhz. The performance on the air is much better than the previous antenna. The convenience of a flat SWR across 40M and the trans/rec performance is very good. First weekend on the air I worked KH7XS club station during the IOTA contest with 100W from the east coast of USA.
AD4XV Rating: 2015-09-21
Well built and works great! Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
I purchased the 80M double bazooka from Ultimax several months ago, and installed it at 40 feet. I have compared it to my ZS6BKW Optimized G5RV. The Bazooka 90% of the time beats our the ZS6BKW on 80M by 2 S units, and the noise floor is lower on the bazooka also. Stations at the other end are hearing the same, about 2 S unit increase. I added a 15M double bazooka after seeing the 80M work so well, and it did not disappoint. I will say that 80M and 15M are my worst bands on the ZS6BKW multi band antenna coming in at about 5:1 SWR before using the tuner. Now I have a 20M Double Bazooka up as well. Two weeks ago I was on 20M with my ZS6BKW antenna, which is 2:1 or less over 20M band, and I found some stations that were pretty hard to hear, and down in the noise. I happen to switch to my 80M bazooka and my 15M bazooka to listen, and the signal was week but just right out of the noise floor. I ordered and received the 20M Double Bazooka, installed it, and tuned it for the SSB section. I was amazed once I got to test the antenna out. I found that my noise floor was S4 on the ZS6BKW, but S2 on the Bazooka. Signals that were worked and at S5 on the bazooka could not be pulled out on the ZS6BKW wire antenna. I tested with a couple DX station, and the 20M bazooka normally was about 1 S Unit better with them. I would sling these things up all over the place if I had the space!

As for the company, the antenna ships quick, and build quality is very good. Customer service seems good as well.
XE1GR Rating: 2015-08-12
Excellent antennas Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I work Maritime mobile and I have installed a 40m and 20m mono band double bazooka antennas on board two ships, I always get very good signal reports, these antennas deals very good with the noise that I have on board the ships much better than a normal dipole antenna, I hear much better and the construction quality is outstanding they are made very strong which for me to work MM is very important, very often we have winds of more than 100 Km/h for more than 48 hours and these antennas are still working very well.
So if they perform really good on a ship dealing with the salt, high winds, moisture and sun you can be sure that they will last for many years in your QTH.
The after sale service is excellent, Albert Mercado was always answering all my E-mails and calls very quickly.
I strongly recommend these antennas.
Jean-Paul, XE1GR / MM
AD4C2024 Rating: 2015-06-01
The best dipoles Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I want to congratulate Albert Mercado the owner and builder of these bazooka antennas at ULTIMAX not only for its well done antennas but also for the high performance of them.

This new bazooka for 40M I am using now, have a very wide bandwith, I can see a SWR of just 1.2 from 7000 to 7250 Khz and my K3 now has become even quiter than before when I was using my regular dipole.
As I said in my previous review he always leave them longer for you to trim or wrap the wires back for resonance, this one was tuned to 6500 Khz and it took me half an hour trimming and checking swr with an antenna analyzer to make it resonant at 7.1 Mhz so now is flat to 1.2 in the entire band I use normally.

Although the gain of bazooka dipoles should be the same of a regular dipole, now I am receiving stronger signals reports from all over the world meaning there is some gain over the regular dipole.

Also this antenna resonate pretty well on 15M, without the tuner my SWR in that band is only 1.8


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Earlier 5-star review posted by AD4C2006 on 2014-07-20

After been experimenting with many different dipoles, long wires, verticals, etc I am back to the best dipoles, the "Bazooka" and after searching the net for prices, quality, long time reliability, etc found Ultimax antennas in FL is building the best of all with very affordable prices compared with others on the market.
This weekend I put down my vertical and my homemade dipoles and installed two new bazookas from this company.
I had the expected results, in the past I tried a monoband on 17M and I knew how good these dipoles are.
These two are one for 20M and one for 17M, they are built using RG8X and hold pretty well maximum legal power although I am running them with only 1200W. It took me quite some time to "tune" them, the builder on purpose leave them longer for you to trim or wrap the ends which are pieces of black AWG 14 insulated cable,the one for 20M in my specific installation as flat dipole at only 20 feet high, was resonating around 13Mhz but was easy to tune it up to 14.1 KHz using my MFJ269 antenna analyzer, now the K3 see 1.2 from 14.000 up to 14.350 and the received is very quite.
The one for 17M was installed as inverted V using a 17 feet up galvanized pipe, as the other, when installed was resonating at 17Mhz and in less than half an hour it was tuned to 18.2 Mhz, now the K3 see 1.2 swr in the whole band.
I have been testing them for several hours and I really like how well they work, reports from Europe,Africa and Asia are all very good even using just the 100W from the radio, I received them very clear, what is really outstanding on these two antennas is the very small amount of received noise.
Without a doubt Ultimax makes excellent bazooka dipoles for all bands.