Greetings. I'm the trustee of our local club's 2m repeater. It's NE of the
big town of Joplin, MO. (147.210) What I want to find out, I'm going to ask
our club to buy a new 224e antenna (assuming that this is the correct version
needed for T147.210 R147.810), and arrange the elements on the north
edge of the tower we're on so that 3 elements point to the SW, to favor our
town so that HTs can work it, and one element to the ENE to point some
energy to Springfield for working severe weather. Altho I'm thinking about
trying to link the repeater with either EchoLink or some other repeater to
Springfield and just point all 4 elements to the SW. :-) But it's on the north
leg (that leg points to the north), so if pointing them to the SW gets the
highest gain, that sounds great to me. :-) The point is that there's a DB224
there now, not sure if it's an E version or not, but I think it has some issues
right now, so I'd rather just get a new one up and bring the old one down and
go thru it at our leisure, plus reorienting it so that we can actually USE it.
:-)
Anyways, I wanted to know if anyone had one here that was in either new-
in-box or barely used condition, how much $$ they go for nowadays, and
how hard is it to reorient the elements if it was originally designed / set
for omni (3, 6, 9, 12 o'clock).
Thanks!
Ray, KB0STN
Trustee, W0IN
