Hey, have you ever built any antennas? I know it is tempting to go buy a
standard issue one and ask everyone else why they bother, sometimes, I am
even tempted myself...

Regards

"Richard Clark" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:37:12 -0800, "John Smith"
wrote:

The rubber duckie antenna is certainly useful for some situations,
however,
it is better if it stays on the walkie-talkie and we use another design
for
portable or base use.

Hi John,

Given this opprobrium, what makes its cousin for 20M more suitable?
[20M is not noted for being line-of-sight either.] The principle
annoyance to erecting antennas is in matching them, beyond that, any
radiator from 0.1 to 0.625 wavelengths pretty much has the same gain
in the same direction. The difference being that some are harder to
interface to a transmitter than others.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC