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![]() "Spin" wrote in message ... Wayne........That's interesting.....Can you elaborate on that 2 meter antenna you had? I wonder if one were to make a longer version would it have gain & a wider bandwidth? Sure. However, I'm not recommending it for anything. As I recall it was a quarter wave of coax terminated in a 10 watt dummy load. The quarter wave was connected as previously described, with the shield of the quarter wave connected to the center conductor of the feedline and the shield of the feedline connected to the center conductor of tthe quarter wave. I was just trying to get a dummy load to radiate enough for a short path to a repeater. (Transmitter ran 10 watts) At a different time, I simply terminated a feedline (low quality RShack RG-58) with a 10 watt carbon resistor (unshielded and 3 inch leads). It worked about the same. However, remember that I was only trying to hit a single repeater, and a whip antenna with just a few milliwatts would have worked on that particular path. The "antenna" was very poor, but there may be paths where it is an acceptable compromise. |
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