Replacing the WRC TIA 1000 8ft telescoping pole with 16ft wire

In this project I replaced the 8 ft telescopic pole/whip that comes with the Wolf River Coils TIA 1000 antenna with a 16 ft wire element. I tallied the number of contacts I made with each of these 2 antennas, plus the DX Commander for reference, using wsprnet.org.

Thanks to Mike, K8MRD, for the motivation to do this. He has a video in which he replaced the telescoping pole on his car antenna, not a WRC, with a longer one from MFJ. I wanted to see how this would play out with my WRC using material found around the house.

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