[TheList] PRS Frequencies

Tue Jun 7 07:12:52 AEST 2011

Sadly Mobile One no longer make them due to insufficent demand.

The coil is wound around a 50mm peice of waste pipe as a former.

On 7/06/2011 8:06 a.m., Craig Molloy wrote:
> 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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