I live in Charleston SC and the DB-420 is a common commercial antenna around here. We had two cat 1 hurricanes this past summer and now I note that many if not most of the DB-420's are now bent over by 30-45 degrees. I had one I was using for my UHF rptr before it got stolen (long story) and the bend was a few inches above the top mount. All of these antennas are hanging off the sides of roofs or top mount on tower sections. I have not seen the same issue with the DB224's around here so not sure if this issue is particular to the 420 or not?
FYI, just put a MastrIIe on the air with a 450-470 DB-404 and it has a nearly perfect SWR and nice coverage to the metropolitan area (also helps when you're on the tallest building downtown, no other transmitters, and only have a 20ft run of LDF4 :-) John/N4SJW --- In [email protected], Bob Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The G6 isn't quite as rugged as a commercial fiberglass-enclosed antenna, > but given it's short length I don't think it's much of a concern. If > severe weather is an issue, the exposed dipole designs like the DB- 408 or > DB-420 are probably best. > > Bob NO6B 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/
