Thanks Bdale & everyone else. My DFing last weekend was with body blocking. That works pretty well if the range is right. It’s good to know that DFing will work with the 3 element. I’ll order that and see how it goes.
To throw a monkey wrench in this thread, here’s another question. Instead of using an HT, has anyone DF’d using RSSI on a TeleDongle/TeleBT? Walking around with a Yagi & AltosDroid seems like it’d work just fine if I just watched RSSI. Thanks! -Bryan > On May 30, 2019, at 5:52 PM, Bdale Garbee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bryan Duke <[email protected]> writes: > >> Awesome, thanks. I’ve read a couple posts on TRF of people saying the >> 3 isn’t directional enough for RDF. Any issues with that? > > RDF can be fun, or it can be really annoying .. I have to admit it's > been a while since I did any myself. > > Having said that, I've successfully done RDF with a 3-element. > > Honestly, the biggest thing you need for doing RDF is an RF attenuator > (in the radio or external) so that when you get close you can knock the > signal down enough to not have full quieting in all directions. We've > done things like putting on a rubber duck and using the body of the HT > as a "blocker" to look for the deepest null... even taking the antenna > entirely off and using just an open SMA connector on the end of the HT > to "sniff out" which direction a strong signal is coming from. > > Hope that helps! > > Bdale _______________________________________________ altusmetrum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum
