A very good day everybody my name is Callum from DX Commander I've got a really interesting
announcement for you is that for about two years we've been working on the signature 9 .. 9.5? I
think? We'll call it a signature nine because I'll explain in a minute .. on screen here I've got
the plate set that Tyler and I have done uh Tyler uh K7TDM in case you didn't know he's a designer
and he works for me making all these great plates we've had a few prototypes a few disasters uh but
we're there so what we're going to do is this is a pre-launch video because in about two weeks time
we'll actually launch the first 50. okay maybe 49 because I've got 50 sets I've used one set
and I want to use another set so there'll be 48 we'll launch we'll get customer feedback
within a couple of weeks I'm sure and then we'll do the full launch there will be a
small saving on the first 50. well let's start from the basics here because the 12.4 a lot of
you will know 12.4 is a beast and a half and it was a couple of years ago I said
to the factory could I get a cut down version of this but to my spec let's kind of start again so
we did we did start again um and there's a number of things I wanted including
obviously the right length for shipping I wanted a Slimmer pole but heavier so this
is this weighs uh about 20 percent heavier than a classic Bowl it bends a lot less if
you've been watching my videos you will know that in the field for nearly 15 months we've
had one of these up I just got to show you the base of this to show you the the quality of as a
uh maybe that one might pick it up whoa not so much quality it's just we've got a lot of
fiberglass in there I wonder if this one can pick it up as well probably not as well to be honest
um if if I can't do it here I'll get a cutaway for you and and show it off off camera
so the whole thing is basically this is solid fiberglass tube um now here's the cool thing we're
doing I'm going to take the lid off now so it all might go everywhere we are supplying what's so
we are supplying with this a ground pole all right they said just under four foot long you'll dig
a hole you'll slide this halfway in and this signature nine slips beautifully over the top
because there's no guys on a signature nine right so you can put it in the
corner of your garden really nice so you could have say 180 degrees of radius on
the ground and you'll have all bands now but let me oh should we should I show you
how that fits in we could do couldn't we uh this is when it all goes wrong
there's a tiny bit of tolerance okay tiny bit of tolerance if you can see that it's maybe one
millimeter but that will slide beautifully about halfway down all right I gotta build one of these
myself I mean I've been building it on and off but I'll do a full build video for you because
there's a couple of really cool things that's really heavy by the way I think that is eighth
of an inch I mean it's almost indestructible very heavy indeed right where do we go from next
this is very exciting for me so I can have all fingers and thumbs we we've got a fun cut out
more the shape is more for us in the factory so we don't confuse this with the classic which is
perfectly round but with this you'll get the pole you'll have the ground stake in in the ground
you'll slip it over but in fact the ground plate will stay just on the ground so as the um as you
slip the pole down it will just fit on like this you'll do up the so239 if you ever want it off
you'll take the two three nine off and you slip the pole off so you can do maintenance or whatever
right if you are a classic user or a signature 9 user you'll kind of know the benefit of that
let's put this out of the way go through the plate set because this is very exciting
just to just a reminder that's a lot less bend on that than there is on the the classic now then
we've had obviously you get a driven plate as well so the so239 but here you get all your elements
coming up here you're going to want to know can you do 80 meters on this you could do but it kind
of it'd be a shame I've really designed this for the guy who wants every band from 40 to six you'll
just get a perfect tune that way including 30. see if you want 80 meters unless you are
a late at night guy or something like that make a linear loaded 80 meter dipole or something
stick it up fence height you don't need to I say ruin you don't you don't need to uh put an
inverted L up on this and you can if you want it's exactly the same but one thing let's just do this
plate set so this I mentioned to you the other day eventually in about a year's time these will
be great but in the meantime they're white they're completely UV stable they will not crack Splinter
or break they're a lot thicker than the classic plates and there are blooming tight squeeze on
the pole so I might get Tyler to take that out 0.2 of a millimeter 0.1 of a millimeter but we'll see
so that's the top spreader why have we got six elements on the top spreader we'll come back to
that and then we've got these so obviously from that's originally we used to call that the guy
plate so for continuity purposes we've put three guy points in here but you don't need guy points
all right maybe you go I'm going on holiday and I'll take my signature nine with me you know I can
guide it to save me digging a hole in the garden so we just for continuity purposes we've given you
some guy points but only on the bottom all right the rest of them don't there's a mid spreader
at about three meters this is at five so most of your elements will connect here
however why is the upper spreader got so many holes so in the development of this and I
haven't nailed it yet all right so I'm trying I'm trying this one is that I want to give give you
12 and 10 as a pseudo five eight three quarter wave that's what I'm trying to do because and I'll
show you the modeling in a minute 40 meters will get a quarter wave and 15 meters if you remember
we get a three-quarter wave off the same element so 30 meters gets a quarter wave 20 meters gets
a quarter wave 17 meters gets a quarter wave we if we could extend 10 and 12 like we've done on
the signature 12.4 because that's working really good 12 and 10 on the signatures with the longer
elements so that's the reason for this so two of the holes won't be used we'll have 12 and 10
and 40 and 30 and of course I'm 40 we've got 15 in each element all right what's next um
uh let's get rid of this and move to file I've got I've reopen the signature nine so I don't know for
you to see really here you can see though if I just zoom back out the shortest element in
this whole thing you can see it just in the middle there that's the 17 meter element everything else
is you know almost three quarters of the length of a pole so it'll be fantastic so a lot of downward
play um be a lot of downward um pull as well we are going to give you the option of gluing this if
you wanted to we'll Supply the clamps as well but you can glue it too and we know uh for a fact that
um well it's safe I don't like saying for a fact right it's like it's not good to say we know for
a fact okay but it is factual we know that at five degrees off the Horizon we're getting again
on a DX Commander across the world on average at about minus five DBI so there's a Baseline and we
know for a fact that if I just ran the numbers on this we're gonna get at five degrees off Horizon
I know we're going to bet up here there we are minus five minus 4.8 but of course on 10 and
12 we're going to get something a little bit heavier so if we go to 24.9 ish give or take
perfect match here that's the other thing on a slightly higher bandwidth on the three quarter
wave but anyway far field plot come down to five degrees off the Horizon minus 2.9 so to
three four yeah so it's a couple of DB maybe more but certainly a couple of DB extra on 12 and 10.
just to give you a little bit more cut through same on uh I don't know where this is tuned for
in software 28 point three five three I don't know three I think it was doesn't really matter
far field uh 175 minus 3.2 so there we are so very exciting stuff it's no waiting list I can't
put you in a queue but don't worry I mean we're not so big that we're going to sell 50 overnight
um I'll probably do the build myself this week and make a quick video and say okay I'm really
comfortable now with the three-quarter waves on 12 and 10. you know I've got any workarounds we need
for instance above above this at about seven meters high off the ground we used to go on
a classic we used to go up and come back down on this one I'm really Keen to do a tiny coil
to get 15 and 40 uh cook on I've learned that from my signature 12.4 experience
so there's just a few things I'm trying to do so you'll save 50 pounds roughly on the production
one I've got the exact prices yet but we'll release 50 or 48 save a few pounds it'll be
next to nothing in it I might make the plates a little bit different or this might be slightly
different but I mean that's fine because I just ordered 50 of everything you see
I think that is about it I think it's great with the Ground Post hey it took me a while to work
that one out should I Supply aluminum should I Supply fiberglass should I not supply something
in the end of decided or Supply the ground but post dig a hole put it in push the Earth
back down water it leave for a week and your pole would be fine obviously you need a little spirit
level if you're in a rush a bag of postcrete shoved down in it's a little bit permanent now
the one we've had up for 15 months I didn't use any postcrete at all I just packed it back down
left it for a couple of weeks and the power's been on it and hasn't shoved at all so there we
are all right gonna be fun all right stay tuned how am I gonna announce this I'll announce it on
Instagram the Facebook group DX Commander page and here and maybe a community post
as soon as it's ready with the price and everything else all right so there we are wish
me luck and I wish you luck as well all the best bye for now next videos here all right cheerio!