That Arrow antenna is a snap to build and even though centered
on 2m band receives really well fm aircraft band to wx band.

Richard WB8KRN


"Tom Ring" wrote in message ...
Richard wrote:
Whenever I think about a simple VHF wideband omnidirectional vertical
antenna for my marine band listening, I'm always thinking folded dipole. I
think I've got folded dipole on the brain. But wait - isn't it better to
make J-pole. Constructionaly simpler I think, and you can feed with
unbalanced coax. Are J-poles wideband antennas? I want any antenna to cover
156-162 MHZ (6Mhz bandwidth) - RECEICE ONLY. Would a J-Pole do here,
bandwidth-wise?TIA.


A search on google found this marine J-pole.

http://www.arrowantennas.com/j-pole.html

Looks well put together, and covers what you want at 1.5 to 1 claimed.

tom
K0TAR

It looks enough better mechanically than the normal J, that I decided I
have to build one just to see if it works well. And I don't need one,
but that probably hasn't stopped too many people in this group.

tom
K0TAR

Richard Heindel wrote:
That Arrow antenna is a snap to build and even though centered
on 2m band receives really well fm aircraft band to wx band.

Richard WB8KRN


"Tom Ring" wrote in message ...

Richard wrote:

Whenever I think about a simple VHF wideband omnidirectional vertical
antenna for my marine band listening, I'm always thinking folded dipole. I
think I've got folded dipole on the brain. But wait - isn't it better to
make J-pole. Constructionaly simpler I think, and you can feed with
unbalanced coax. Are J-poles wideband antennas? I want any antenna to cover
156-162 MHZ (6Mhz bandwidth) - RECEICE ONLY. Would a J-Pole do here,
bandwidth-wise?TIA.


A search on google found this marine J-pole.

http://www.arrowantennas.com/j-pole.html

Looks well put together, and covers what you want at 1.5 to 1 claimed.

tom
K0TAR