[TheList] PRS Frequencies

Tue Jun 7 06:06:38 AEST 2011

Station master, and i remember buying one from DSE back in the day

On 7/06/2011 8:00 a.m., Neill Ellis wrote:
> The one I'm thinking of had a peice of 100mm x 3mm thick Alloy about 
> 500mm long bent with a top & bottom. The Bottom Was wider then the 
> top. Two 32mm holes where drilled in the top & bottom plate and a 
> peice or Orange electrical conduit pipe feed through it. A coil of 9.5 
> turns of 5mm Dia rod was used for impedance matching. The SO239 socket 
> is in the bottom plate central in the middle of the coil if it 
> extended down, it extended a wire from the 3.5 turn point down the 
> centre of the coil to the connector. The Aerial went down inside the 
> 32mm pipe only to the connection point of the coil.
>
> Sound about right? That's the Station Master or Skip Whip. Probably 
> still available from Mobile one in Australia.
>
> Regards,
>
> Neill.
>
>
> On 6/06/2011 10:50 p.m., Oliver wrote:
>>
>> No, they were made in CHCH by a bloke in New Brighton. About 18' 
>> long. Had a loading coil at the base. Sort of tuned to 26500Mhz. He 
>> defianately called them a skipmaster.
>>
>> I might have to resort to a mobile on the roof using the roof as a 
>> ground plane as it is metal. Not ideal as it is on an angle but......
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Neill Ellis" <tgsnoopy at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 9:04 PM
>> To: <thelist at radiowiki.org.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [TheList] PRS Frequencies
>>
>>> Skipmaster, Do you mean a Stationmaster which was also known as a 
>>> Skip Whip?
>>>
>>> They are one of the best aerials out there. I probably made about 50 
>>> of them over the years.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/06/2011 7:06 p.m., Oliver wrote:
>>>> Funny how folks laugh when CB is mentioned. PRS seems to be the 
>>>> 'only' kind of non HAM communication for the masses. 26Mhz (and 27) 
>>>> works well.
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for the plans for a Skipmaster!  Odd I know :)
>>>>
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