On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:12:20 EDT, Tom Horne wrote:

I am looking for recommendations for a dual band antenna that will serve tw
o separate radios. The reason that I want to use a single antenna is that
I have a limited number of mounting points for antennas.

One radio will be a two meter packet node which will be used as a Winlink R
adio Message Server. The other radio will be a UHF D-STAR hotspot. I am w

At the hospital we use a tri-band (144, 222, 440) Comet vertical
antenna fed with a single coax cable, and at the radio end a three-way
splitter and a set of Polyphaser bandpass filters for each radio. That
is necessary because of the high rf environment. Has worked well for
over 10 years.

The dual-band (2m/440) equivalents are available off-the-shelf from
your favorite ham radio supplier (store or on-line).

It sure beats messing around with any of the other schemes reported
here.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

Member, Washington County, OR
Emergency Communications Team
for ARES/RACES and HEARTNET

Station Co-manager - W7PSV / K7PSV
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
Disaster Communication Team