It's Location,location,location.
My primary QTH antenna is HAAT + 50ft
5 Watts into a j-pole does fine for most machines 75 miles.
At my fishing cabin HAAT - 75ft it takes 100Watts
into a 10el Cushcraft to get the same working
radius. Elevation is everthing.

Greg
WG8Z
Greg Z
to thine own sound be true
WG8Z

I guess I should have said I don't normally use FM or repeaters. Tropo
scatter is a fun thing. And I like HF also, but normally run only 100
watts, since it propogates so easily.

tom
K0TAR

Paul Jordan wrote:

No, I'm not joking at all.. We use repeaters here in Alaska that are on
nice tall mountains all over the state. Check out the Arctic Amateur
Radio Club repeater page sometime. Thier repeaters system has over
60,000 square miles of coverage.. I can access any of thier repeaters
with a 5 watt handheld. My Icom 706 only has 10 watts on 2 meters and
I've never had a problem with reception or transmission into a repeater.

I guess we're just not into the long distance contacts you outsiders
like to do down there in the lower 48.

What's funny is, you can work satellites and space shuttles with 5 watts
and a hand held Yagi... I still can't see the need for all that power on
2 meters.. I guess if I need to reach out farther, I go HF..

That's what makes this hobby so interesting though, we all have
different interests.


Tom Ring wrote:

You are, of course, joking. Why wouldn't you want an antenna that
handles at least that? 200 watts is low power on VHF and up for many
of us.

I would expect any fixed antenna system I use on 6 or 2 to handle full
legal limit, and 70cm to handle 500 watts minimum. I will admit you
normally wouldn't use vertical polarization with that much power, but
I still want my antenna/feed systems to handle it without a problem.

tom
K0TAR

Paul Jordan wrote:

I guess my question would be... WHY do you need 200 watts on 2 meters
or 440mhz for that matter??

Hal Rosser wrote:

I would be very tempted to try a discone in this case - just to say
I made
one.
practically no gain - but I hear they have extremely good bandwidth
- and
different enough to start interesting QSOs locally



"Ralph Blach" wrote in message
...

Does anybody have any good ideas for a good dual band
2 meter/440 antenna? This would be a base antenna and
should be capable of handling 200 watts.


Thanks


Chip






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