I use a small yagi vertical (13B2) for one of my FM antennas for a while. With it @ 65' and 50w could work repeaters as far as 170 miles away most of the time. Using a good preamp and 165w about 225 mi or so.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Fjeld Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:35 AM To: Ron D'Eau Claire; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron D'Eau Claire To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in line-of-sight from the rig. The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with horizontal polarization. 73 Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2242 / Virus Database: 3199/5929 - Release Date: 06/21/13 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
