Tolja... So does the 'Super Penetrator' fix the problem with the loading coil? IIRC the CLR2 couldn't take much more than 150w... The Sigma did better. I had an AS Starduster so no trouble with wattage at all... It ain't a big thing - I am not figuring to run much power... for now :P
I heard that metal omni-directional antennas with ground-plane radials are illegal now... Illegal or grandfathered?
They're called boatanchors because they're so heavy (and some say because they have tubes.) It's more a nickname for the older radios than anything else.
Great. Then that's the way I am going to go. I am partial to the yaesu anyhoo, and I have been out of the loop so long...
I'd not heard of them being made illegal. AES Ham sells the original Avanti Super Penetrator in their catalog so I don't believe metal ground plane antenna's are illegal. Avanti (or whoever owns Avanti now) started making them again in the last year. I'm planning on picking one up and modifying it for use on 12/15/17/20 Meters.
I also don't know much about the CLR2 and its power handling capabilities. If it does in fact have a loading coil, the amount of power it can handle will be directly related to the gauge of wire used by the coil.
I have an original Starduster up on the roof which I use for 6/10/12/15 meters. Of course I have a good antenna tuner to tune it for those bands. Works quite well. I don't use 6 meters much so I'm going to replace the Starduster with the Super Penetrator above and modify it.
The advantage of the Super Penetrator over the Starduster is the Penetrator is a real 5/8 wave antenna, whereas the Starduster is a quarter wave over half-wave.