On (23 Dec 96  21:00:30) Rob Dennis wrote to Larry Kunz ...
RD>  Larry it looks like you just made yourself a 2 element  6m beam.
RD>  Your directivity will be in the same direction as the side of the tower
RD> it
RD> is mounted on with a null directly behind it.
RD>  A nice thing to have if you want to only serve one area and keep
RD> spurious
RD> noise or signals out of your repeater.
RD>  Not to good if you want a wide coverage repeater though.
I first tried a Diamond 5/8 x 2 (6db?) colinear. After almost three
months waiting for this thing, I tuned and mounted this thing at the
top of the tower (about 55' at the base). Since this thing is 21'
long, I was expecting a improvement over the 1/2 wave dipole I'm
currently using. As it turned out, my coverage was so poor that I
returned to the dipole.
I have heard from others that this antenna from Diamond is not all
that good (after the fact). It tunes just fine, but seems to radiate
like a dummy load using cheap coax.
Larry
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