You are, of course, joking. Why wouldn't you want an antenna that
handles at least that? 200 watts is low power on VHF and up for many of us.

I would expect any fixed antenna system I use on 6 or 2 to handle full
legal limit, and 70cm to handle 500 watts minimum. I will admit you
normally wouldn't use vertical polarization with that much power, but I
still want my antenna/feed systems to handle it without a problem.

tom
K0TAR

Paul Jordan wrote:
I guess my question would be... WHY do you need 200 watts on 2 meters or
440mhz for that matter??

Hal Rosser wrote:

I would be very tempted to try a discone in this case - just to say I
made
one.
practically no gain - but I hear they have extremely good bandwidth - and
different enough to start interesting QSOs locally



"Ralph Blach" wrote in message
...

Does anybody have any good ideas for a good dual band
2 meter/440 antenna? This would be a base antenna and
should be capable of handling 200 watts.


Thanks


Chip




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