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Is there an easy way of coupling the phone to the coax?
Alan WN4HOG -- Windsurfing Club: http://www.ibscc.org "Denny" wrote in message oups.com... Tony, look in the ARRL Antenna Handbook... There will be short yagi designs for UHF... A Quagi would work well and be easy to match, but not as handy to stow away...I suggest 5 elements as the most bang for the buck between complexity and performance... Just scale to your frequency... Use a small aluminum tube for the boom, and bare welding rods for the elements... Put a decent piece of RG8 or LMR400 on it and it should play well... denny / k8do Tony VE6MVP wrote: Folks So I'm thinking about emergency communications and it seems to me that an 800 Mhz Yagi antenna would be useful. I have one of those old Motorola bag phones which I use when travelling in rural Alberta. It works nice especially when on a 3' mag mount antenna on the vehicle roof but it seems to me a Yagi up 20' might be useful at times. Tony |