I was interested in James reply because I had similar experiences with newer Hustler antennas. My club repeater, a friends repeater and my 220 repeater all used Hustler G6 and G7 antennas for years with good success. A couple of years ago, we decided to replace the two Hustler antennas at my friends site when he put the new tower up. The 220 antenna worked Ok, but the 2 meter G7 has been nothing but trouble. A friend in Westerly RI bought a G7 for his 2 meter repeater and also had trouble. Desense seems to be the common problem. Maybe there is something different between the old G6/G7 antennas and the new ones? It's just curious that 3 cases of a similar problem occured. I was careful not to ask James any leading questions about his experiences and he came up with the same conclusion.
I really liked the G6 and G7 as a good economical antenna solution, but now I'm having some serious doubts. Nothing scientific to go on, just and bad feling due to experience. 73, Joe, k1ike ---- Kevin Custer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject: > RE: Re: [Repeater-Builder] G6 144b coil > From: > "Kevin K. Custer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:06:50 -0500 > > To: > [email protected] > > > I disagree... > > Like any other cheap solution, with the proper care (replace ground > plane radials with solid rod, heat shrink the joints and top) the > Hustler G series will work fine in Full Duplex Applications. I have > some that have been up for over 10 years and are still doing fine.... > > Kevin Custer > > > > ------- Original Message ------- > *From :* James[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent :* 3/3/2006 7:03:29 AM > *To :* [email protected] > *Cc :* > *Subject :* RE: Re: [Repeater-Builder] G6 144b coil > > Joe, > > I always found that the G6, and G7 had high desense when used in a > FDX application. Also, the overall thin aluminum design of these things > keeps me from putting them on a tower where I can't easily get to them. > Lastly, the radials on my G7 never seemed to stay in one spot (the ends > of them crushed down over time under the mounting plate). The cheapest > thing I have used on my 2 meter repeater stuff now is a Diamond that was > silver soldered at every joint. > > James 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/
