RadioBanter - View Single Post - Does a j pole need grounding and/or a balun?

January 9th 05, 02:13 PM

verbositized:

What type of verticle are you talking about, like a ground plane? Would
a ground plane be a better antenna for 2meters?

Check out my Stacked-J for 2 meters. It is a J-Pole on top of a
J-Pole.
I don't know the difference in gain, but in comparison to a regular
J-Pole on the same mast, the Stacked-J outperformed it hands down.

From St. Louis County, MO I could reach both UMR (Rolla) and UofC
(Columbia) repeaters on the Stacked-J at 30 watts, a little noisy on
their end, but I was clear. On a single J-Pole I could not bring up
their repeaters even at 50 watts.

The Stacked-J can be found at http://archimedes.galilei.com/raiar
It's under Antenna's.

TTUL
Gary