Besides, that's a lot of extra aluminum to get 3 dB extra that 95% of the users will never notice.
I know, I know, some of you won't agree, that's fine. But that's my story, and I'm sticking to it ;-) Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "skipp025" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 6:50 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: A Good 440 Anttena > > > Right on the money... the 420 end mounted at the top > of a tower has enough end torque to actually flex a > Rohn 55 section (in a >35mph) quite a bit. Enough > to make me really nervous. > > You can "in-line" the dipoles of a DB-408 per > Decibels information to obtain a sort of colinear > pattern, which is bi-directional to an extent. > > Side mounted, the 420 kicks fanny (a nice way of > saying butt), but you really don't want that much > antenna at the top of a tall skinny tower. > > The DB-411 is a pretty nice 4 dipole unit, it will > give you a nice directional lobe in the desired > direction. It's also a good preformance/gain vs > length antenna. > > cheers, > skipp > 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/
