I know that if a part fails on ANY antenna everything changes, I used to recall the old Squallo antennas, I discovered a broken lead wire to the capacitor was giving a high SWR reading.
I also recently bought a used 2M. Ringo antenna, cleaned it up, and retighten everything, works fine now. also I read enough material that a metal object so much distance away or even close will throw throw SWR readings off. Mark Holman, CRO AB8RU ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] WA6SVT coaxial collinear results > > On Monday 01 November 2004 01:07 pm, Bob Dengler wrote: >> Cushcraft 4-pole is far from a dummy load. It may be >> mechanically fragile, but it has about the same gain as >> any other comparable dipole array. > > I probably shouldn't have made the dummy load comment. Mine > acted like one, but I don't dispute that most of them work > well. I just didn't have any luck with it for unknown > reasons. Thinking it might have a problem in the phasing > harness, I built a new one. That made no significant > difference. Maybe the 4-pole didn't like its surroundings. > >> Perhaps you had it adjusted for an omni pattern (each >> dipole rotated 90� from the one beneath it). This will >> NOT work on the UHF 4-pole & will result in a very >> degraded pattern. It ONLY works when the dipoles are all >> lined up. > > No, they were all in line. I was (am) more interested in > coverage to the west than anywhere else so I do what I can > to favor that direction. > > Paul N1BUG > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
