On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:19:29 GMT, "Dale Parfitt"
wrote:
"Denny" wrote in message
oups.com...
A vee beam or rhombic set up would give you impressive gain, albeit
with a narrow beamwidth... All the factors would have to be right...
I won't take the time to do the search for you, but 'try vhf rhombic'
for starting a search... Older ARRL VHF antenna books address this
issue...

Of what use is a directional antenna on 2M if you cannot rotate it?

Dale W4OP

Hi Dale,

I couldn't resist.

If you make the rhombic with stretchable mounting points (and do not
load the end of the rhombic, so as to make it bi-directional) you can
change the major axis. This would alter EW to NS, and, I bet, if you
didn't stretch it strictly to the typical elongated axis (the major
axis) you would probably fill in the lobes in between.

However, this (admittedly rube Goldberg design) and the original
suggestion of a rhombic seems prohibitive in a neighborhood already
far too sensitive to even a quarterwave vertical.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC